The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School

footOne L is the first attempt at non fiction musical composition by Scott Turrow, an attorney by profession and a best marketing novelist. Mr. He graduated from Harvard Law School and He has been a married person in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, a national equity firm, since 1986, Turrow has won multiple awards for his writings including the Heartland Prize in 2003 For Reversible Errors and the Robert F. Kennedy award in 2004 for Ultimate punishment. He is best kn experience for his second non fictional live The Ultimate Punishment in which he discusses the death penalty. He is presently a Member of Illinois Executive Ethics Commission. Turrows fictional micturate is widely popular and although he confines his writing only to the mar enigma genre his work is commendable. Turrows reasons for finding this genre the intimately captivating are simple he says Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality cant deliver. (Scott Turrow, 2001)SUMMARYTurrow in his record One L gives an account of what a first year fairness savant goes through. Scott Turrow interprets the authenticity of the deportment of equity schoolchilds ubiquitously. He describes an array of statuss beginning of course with the fervency of being accepted into an Ivy coalition cultivate, Harvard Law the most reputable law schooltime in the country. Mr. Turrow attended law school in the 70s only when he manages to narrate his news report in a manner that seems enduring enough to keep a subscriber captivated all through the book he gets a nicety dramatic at times bad details intimately everything ace might commence in the first year of law college from the peculiar kinds of students to the remarkable teachers, the stress the pressure even some horrific accounts near the way students are treated by the professors.It is common knowledge that Teachers in most law schools use the Socratic method of teaching which obviously comes as a surprise to Turrow The first year law students rush to study the law of contracts, torts and criminal law. Mon daytime, Tuesday, Wednesday, the mornings we have Contracts . . . Im nearly sick to my stomach. . . . I cant believe it, but I think about that class and I get ill, h ancient opens turrow. As a common practice in colleges Turrow write about his study group.He also has ideas for improving the system and the general experience of the first year law students. He suggests brief writing, research, motor lodge technique, document drafting, negotiation, client counseling, and the paramount task of gathering the facts. Mr. Turows study of the opposite students also appears rather outward and small-minded. The students are basically stereotyped into the achievers, the complainers intellectuals, but who, in reality, are no more intellectual than a kindergartener with a crayon and the professors who hara ss the students. He distinguishs nothing about the types of queries one comes crosswise in a law school.He attended law school while he was married and his marital life added to the dilemmas of law school but what Mr. Turrow never mentions is that the average first year law student is not married his problems can not be compared to an average law student which eradicates the validity of the book as a true experience of an average student in addition to all these agentive roles the fact that the mid-seventies experience can not be compared to a present day experience should also be taken into accountAnother factor which is different in the present times compared to the time Turrow attended law school is the admissions procedure students planning to go to law school straight off have the option of taking an editing test which means a lot of studying before the actual admissions meanwhile in the seventies students got admissions on the basis of their grades only Scotts work though comprehensive and evoke at times is nothing extraordinary much better books about first year experience as a law student have been written his style is true to his attorney self and drags the story along in mostly a negative tone giving the lectors every horrific account possible with great insight into his own emotions and at times it almost sounds like hes suggesting multitude should stop going to law schools just because the first year is gruelling. Mr. Turrow forgets to mention that for every student starting college being nervous is a inwrought thing and the first year of college anywhere is just as tough as the first year of law school. Also an Ivy League school can not be compared to other schools.CONCLUSIONTurrows story is completely subjective without any comprehensive insight into the facts of the situation and at times dramatic to the point of being annoying and pretentious, nurture a book about another persons life experience should open up a new world for the read er instead of imposing the authors ideas. Perhaps it never occurred to Mr. Turrow that a school like Harvard would not change its 200 years old methods of teaching just because the first year students didnt get a warm enough welcome at the school. Although Scott makes an honest effort to get in the best possible way all his experiences he fails at achieving his goal. Its an good enough book for students planning to go to law college but people with no interest in attending a law college would find this book over rated.WORKS CITED1. Amazon inc (2006) book Review of One L The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School. Retrieved on 12th October 2006 fromhttp//www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews2. Scott Turrow (2006) biography of Scott Turrow. Retrieved on 12th October 2006 from