I'm glad I read this book before starting law school, if only for the tip that on the first day of class each semester students must arrive as fully to be called upon to recite as they must be on any other day of the semester. I will never forget the shock on a classmate's face when the first thing our property law professor said was: "Mr. Smith, what is a contingent interest in property?" As a highly selective law school, the University of Iowa Law School departed from the Harvard Law School described by Turow, in its high level of commitment to retaining admitted students. Perhaps this is among the reasons that I didn't witness nearly the number or intensity of student dramas that were described Turow's book.