What Is One L Chapter Summary

Award winning author Scott Turow manages to take us through the life of a first year law student at Harvard Law School in his book One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School, published in 1977. Though law school seems to attract the eye of many graduates, teachers, politicians, and many others, it is no walk in the park. Countless hours of reading cases, outlining briefs, and thorough but excellent professors. Scott Turow is the author of ten best-selling works of fiction and two works of non-fiction as well, one being One L. He has also won many prestigious literary awards, like the Heartland Prize for Reversible Errors in 2003, Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Ultimate Punishment in 2004, and Time Magazine’s Best Work of Fiction for Personal Injuries in 1999. However, One L is about his very own experience as a law student, which I personally thought was very unique. He manages to accurately portray the competitiveness among yourself and the other students in a section, the scattered idea of legal education, and the constant questioning and worrying that comes
It begins with Turrow arriving at HLS (Harvard Law School) for his orientation which is five days before the first day of classes. This eventually led to him explaining how the 550 entering 1Ls are broken up into four sections, each section containing 140. Every single day those 140 other students would be whom you would attend class with the whole year and also make friendships. Then later he begins to explain the difficulty that comes with getting admission into the best law schools in the nation, the emphasis on the LSAT and past grades received in your undergraduate of college, and the minuscule of details of come with picking the right classes. Therefore immediately you begin to feel the anxiousness in his voice to begin law