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 35
... hard things ahead - a new purposefulness , hardy resolve . Everything I'd encountered so far - the law , my classmates , the great pace of discovery - had left me in deep thrall and I was bent on making sure that continued . I would ...
... hard things ahead - a new purposefulness , hardy resolve . Everything I'd encountered so far - the law , my classmates , the great pace of discovery - had left me in deep thrall and I was bent on making sure that continued . I would ...
Page 67
... hard that I keep putting off even a few minutes for genuine reflection about what I'm up to . I feel as if I am doing some enormous scrimshaw - fine and minute and detailed - from six inches away , without any chance to step back to see ...
... hard that I keep putting off even a few minutes for genuine reflection about what I'm up to . I feel as if I am doing some enormous scrimshaw - fine and minute and detailed - from six inches away , without any chance to step back to see ...
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... hard to define . I liked to think of that kind of status and prestige accruing to me . And God knows , I , like most of my classmates , had worked hard enough to feel that I deserved some extraordinary reward . The next day I was ...
... hard to define . I liked to think of that kind of status and prestige accruing to me . And God knows , I , like most of my classmates , had worked hard enough to feel that I deserved some extraordinary reward . The next day I was ...
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One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School Scott Turow Limited preview - 2010 |
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School Scott Turow Limited preview - 2010 |
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