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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Page 208
... tried to befuddle the class , asking for definitions of terms and procedural maneuvers we'd never seen before , trying to drive us into the inferential chasms created by the absence of material which Fowler , editor of the casebook ...
... tried to befuddle the class , asking for definitions of terms and procedural maneuvers we'd never seen before , trying to drive us into the inferential chasms created by the absence of material which Fowler , editor of the casebook ...
Page 230
... trying to push me around . You give me cases in black and white . You show me ! You don't know what you're talking about ! " At last he bulled away from the table and pounded from the room . A moment after he left , Margo began crying ...
... trying to push me around . You give me cases in black and white . You show me ! You don't know what you're talking about ! " At last he bulled away from the table and pounded from the room . A moment after he left , Margo began crying ...
Page 281
... trying to harm anybody and owed no apologies for wanting to reap the rewards of our perseverance . But Terry felt sheepish that we'd thrown everyone into such consternation . And I was increasingly upset by the whole business . By the ...
... trying to harm anybody and owed no apologies for wanting to reap the rewards of our perseverance . But Terry felt sheepish that we'd thrown everyone into such consternation . And I was increasingly upset by the whole business . By the ...
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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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