Summary Of Scott Turow's One L

Scott Turow’s memoir, One L, perfectly confirms what I have imagined the first year of law school to be like. Although Harvard Law School is a top-ranked law school, the experiences Turow incurred there parallel the experiences of many first-year law school students. Turow’s experiences also occurred during 1975 and 1976. Although more than 40 years ago, not much has changed at law schools across the country. The Socratic Method is still widely used, grades for a term still ultimately depend on one exam, a grade curve is still applied, and most first-year students still learn more about the Law rather than practical knowledge of how to be a lawyer. Even after reading Turow’s confirmation of the horrific visions I have imagined about what my first year of law school will consist of, I still wish to be a lawyer. Turow was able to achieve an extremely high Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) score; a 749 out of 800. This score set him up for attendance at one of the most

This is the method most law school professors use to conduct their courses. When using the Socratic Method, professors ask their students questions at an extensive length in order to get the students’ impressions of the material. Many students are not admirers of the Socratic Method, Turow included. He felt anxious for almost every class, especially classes with Professor Rudolph Perini, Turow’s Contracts professor. Many students are like Turow, fearful of in-class interrogations. Despite preparations to avoid embarrassment during the interrogations, many law students still panic when stepping into the classroom. Turow’s views on Perini changed throughout his first year though. He once viewed him as an adversary, but throughout the year, he realized Perini was just trying to impress on the students the importance of preparation. Turow also praises the Socratic Method for its ability to help him understand the ambiguous side of the