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 249
... four of us left the room to allow the judges to consult . It is usually weeks before a real appellate court announces its decision in a written opinion , but in Ames we'd be getting the word after a few minutes . BSA gives students the ...
... four of us left the room to allow the judges to consult . It is usually weeks before a real appellate court announces its decision in a written opinion , but in Ames we'd be getting the word after a few minutes . BSA gives students the ...
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... four- minute mile after just having finished the marathon . We had four tests inside of seventeen days , thousands of pages to digest and hold together . At the end of the first term , by comparison , we had nearly a month to prepare ...
... four- minute mile after just having finished the marathon . We had four tests inside of seventeen days , thousands of pages to digest and hold together . At the end of the first term , by comparison , we had nearly a month to prepare ...
Page 292
... four pencils , four pens , three rolls of mints , two packs of cigarettes , a cup of iced coffee , a Coke , two chocolate bars , a pencil sharpener , an extension cord for my typewriter . As I unloaded all of this equipment I took a lot ...
... four pencils , four pens , three rolls of mints , two packs of cigarettes , a cup of iced coffee , a Coke , two chocolate bars , a pencil sharpener , an extension cord for my typewriter . As I unloaded all of this equipment I took a lot ...
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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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