One L"A wonderful book...it should be read by anyone who has ever contemplated going to law school. Or anyone who has ever worried about being human."--The New York Times It was a year of terrors and triumphs, of depressions and elations, of compulsive work, pitiless competition, and, finally, mass hysteria. It was Scott Turow's first year at the oldest, biggest, most esteemed center of legal education in the United States. Turow's experiences at Harvard Law School, where freshmen are dubbed One Ls, parallel those of first-year law students everywhere. His gripping account of this critical, formative year in the life of a lawyer is as suspenseful, said The New York Times, as "the most absorbing of thrillers." |
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... told him , and pumped his hand enthusiastically . The last I'd heard , he was a graduate student at Yale . It was good to see a friend , especially on the first day . With our meals , we sat down together . Mike told me he'd come to law ...
... told him , and pumped his hand enthusiastically . The last I'd heard , he was a graduate student at Yale . It was good to see a friend , especially on the first day . With our meals , we sat down together . Mike told me he'd come to law ...
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... told me how offended she had been by the constant gossip about marks , the ceaseless comparisons . It seemed to her ugly and obsessive and adoles- cent . No doubt it was . But most of us - aside from the few with two As - needed the ...
... told me how offended she had been by the constant gossip about marks , the ceaseless comparisons . It seemed to her ugly and obsessive and adoles- cent . No doubt it was . But most of us - aside from the few with two As - needed the ...
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... told myself I was kidding . I told myself that I had said that to shock Terry and Stephen . But I knew better . What had been suppressed all year was in the open now . All along there had been a tension between looking out for ourselves ...
... told myself I was kidding . I told myself that I had said that to shock Terry and Stephen . But I knew better . What had been suppressed all year was in the open now . All along there had been a tension between looking out for ourselves ...
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One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School Scott Turow Limited preview - 2010 |
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