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 138
... seemed to regard them as if they were half mythological . When we were not engrossed in actual discussion of the law , we seemed to spend all our time talking about professors , exchanging rumors - about the famous cases Mann had pros ...
... seemed to regard them as if they were half mythological . When we were not engrossed in actual discussion of the law , we seemed to spend all our time talking about professors , exchanging rumors - about the famous cases Mann had pros ...
Page 238
... seemed to her ugly and obsessive and adoles- cent . No doubt it was . But most of us - aside from the few with two As - needed the reassurance of knowing how others had done , just to be certain that a B was not a sign of incompetence ...
... seemed to her ugly and obsessive and adoles- cent . No doubt it was . But most of us - aside from the few with two As - needed the reassurance of knowing how others had done , just to be certain that a B was not a sign of incompetence ...
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... seemed to have a hard time handling them . " You're just making this worse , " the Boston lawyer told him at one point . When he finished , there was a round of rebuttal ; then the four of us left the room to allow the judges to consult ...
... seemed to have a hard time handling them . " You're just making this worse , " the Boston lawyer told him at one point . When he finished , there was a round of rebuttal ; then the four of us left the room to allow the judges to consult ...
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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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