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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great book.  If you are at all interested in environmental law, read this.  It goes into the work it takes to put together a case in a very encouraging way.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My first required reading for law school.  I really enjoyed it and learned a lot too.  I feel much better informed about the options survivors have after an environmental disaster and it gives a neat window into a lawyer's work.  <br/><br/>The book also left me with a big question about why surviv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69060135">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm going to start reviewing books I read in law school that have some chance of being of general interest, since I suspect that my non-law reading will decline significantly.  <br/><br/>This was an engrossing story of a mining community destroyed (over 100 dead, the town wiped out) by mining comp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31265218">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Guess I'm just too cynical to enjoy the lawyer-as-hero genre.  Statements like &quot;sometimes you do well by doing good&quot; just contribute to my growing sense of cynicism.  I'd stick to fiction - To Kill a Mockingbird, for example - for the inspiring lawyer genre.  That said, the book is a good ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5897329">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you've ever been curious about the rules of civil procedure... this makes it slightly more bearble than law school. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Way too dry for me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned about the Buffalo Creek Flood last year during my ASP trip from a local survivor who told us her account of the disaster as our guest speaker on culture night.  Already being moved by her story, I am really enjoying reading the legal story of the fight back by the devastated survivors to o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25127566">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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