One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law SchoolOne L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school and a best-seller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. |
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... teach ; and Nicky Morris , a young , appealing man who stresses the humanistic aspects of law . Will the One Ls survive ? Will they ex- cel ? Will they make the Law Review , the outward and visible sign of success in this ultra ...
... teaching courses in creative writing and doing my best to write on my own . It was not a bad life . But I found myself with a deepen- ing interest in law . Some of the writing I was doing had involved a good deal of legal research , and ...
... teaching , in going to Harvard . I talked about it one day to a friend , a graduate student in the department whom I knew had thought seriously of going to law school himself . " Look , " he told me , " if I was going to law school , I ...
... teacher . " I asked Mike about my other professors . He did not know much , except about Nicky Morris , the Civil ... teaching fellow , instead of a member of the faculty . For the next three days , though , Methods would be at the ...
... teaching students the kind of precise reasoning considered instrumental to a lawyer's work . The case Henley assigned us was from the Supreme Court of New Hampshire . He asked us to read it and to be ready to discuss it the next time ...
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One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School Scott Turow Limited preview - 2010 |