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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... lawyers . Law school enrollments have grown rapidly , and in 1974 there were nearly 30,000 young lawyers graduated , three times more than were graduated ten years earlier and far too many for the legal job market to absorb . The ...
... lawyers do in court , apparently , is to try to convince judges that the present situation is more like one precedent than another . This system of judges making law case by case is called the " common law . " I am a little embarrassed ...
... lawyer . For me , the primary feeling at the start was one of incredi- ble exposure . Whatever its faults or virtues , the Socratic method depends on a tacit license to violate a subtle rule of public behavior . When groups are too ...
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