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Law Practice

Jul. 3, 2001

World of Difference

The way the legal system works in the United States is so different from everything that can possibly happen in legal life in Germany that it is hard to make direct comparisons.

        By Annette von Osten
        
        On March 3, 2001, I arrived in Los Angeles with two big suitcases to spend nearly four months as an intern at a Los Angeles law firm.
        But let me go back three days.
        Three days before I s...

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