“But Clive is still in Texas, being the awake lawyer in the sleeping lawyer case.” We laugh, a little awed. That case is famous right now, one in which a condemned man has appealed for a new trial because during the original, when he was sentenced to death, his lawyer actually fell asleep during the proceedings. All of us at the table are from northern schools. All of us at the table are from the North. Until now, that case has had the feel of a story from far away. But we’re actually here.
