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 174
... exam . Final exams play on a law student's world like some weirdly orbiting moon . They are always in sight ; but while they're at a distance , they serve merely to create the tensions which swell daily like tides - to read , to keep ...
... exam . Final exams play on a law student's world like some weirdly orbiting moon . They are always in sight ; but while they're at a distance , they serve merely to create the tensions which swell daily like tides - to read , to keep ...
Page 175
... exams , sometimes to an extent unrecog- nized by the faculty . This year , one professor repeated a test he'd used three or four years earlier and had to award a classful of As and A - pluses . The tests are published in two bound ...
... exams , sometimes to an extent unrecog- nized by the faculty . This year , one professor repeated a test he'd used three or four years earlier and had to award a classful of As and A - pluses . The tests are published in two bound ...
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... exam suc- cess and worthwhile achievements in the practice of law are speculative at best . Until that connection is better established , the narrow and arbitrary nature of exams will continue to dictate a narrow and arbitrary means of ...
... exam suc- cess and worthwhile achievements in the practice of law are speculative at best . Until that connection is better established , the narrow and arbitrary nature of exams will continue to dictate a narrow and arbitrary means 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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