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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... questions ; and as confusion grew , so did dissatisfaction . No one was quite sure what Zechman wanted from us . Were we stupid ? Were the questions bad ? What were we supposed to be learning ? It was almost as if Zechman had set out to ...
... questions ; and as confusion grew , so did dissatisfaction . No one was quite sure what Zechman wanted from us . Were we stupid ? Were the questions bad ? What were we supposed to be learning ? It was almost as if Zechman had set out to ...
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... questions . The first was a straight issue - spotter . An M.D. had given a patient a drug still in experimental stages and the series of disasters you come to expect in a Torts course had followed : blindness , car crashes , paralysis ...
... questions . The first was a straight issue - spotter . An M.D. had given a patient a drug still in experimental stages and the series of disasters you come to expect in a Torts course had followed : blindness , car crashes , paralysis ...
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... questions about the case , but had more difficulty when he asked me to compare it with others we'd read in recent weeks . Most of the time I sat there with a look of profound concentration or made weak re- sponses- " weasling , " Perini ...
... questions about the case , but had more difficulty when he asked me to compare it with others we'd read in recent weeks . Most of the time I sat there with a look of profound concentration or made weak re- sponses- " weasling , " Perini ...
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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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