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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... LSAT - the only measure com- mon to all applicants - but its accuracy is often doubted . The test is administered in a session which lasts only four hours , and many persons question the fairness of allowing the results of so short an ...
... LSAT - the only measure com- mon to all applicants - but its accuracy is often doubted . The test is administered in a session which lasts only four hours , and many persons question the fairness of allowing the results of so short an ...
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... LSAT scores often speculated about whether the correlation between the test and law school grades would hold true for them . On a number of occasions I was told that because I was older and married , I was certain to rank high in the ...
... LSAT scores often speculated about whether the correlation between the test and law school grades would hold true for them . On a number of occasions I was told that because I was older and married , I was certain to rank high in the ...
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... LSAT scores , sometimes lower than those of their white classmates . While the LSAT has been shown to be a far less effective measure of a minority student's likely law school success , the discrepancy , combined with the failure of ...
... LSAT scores , sometimes lower than those of their white classmates . While the LSAT has been shown to be a far less effective measure of a minority student's likely law school success , the discrepancy , combined with the failure of ...
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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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