Foreword / by Robert Coles -- Author's note -- Prologue -- Part I: One L -- 1. The experimental section -- 2. The loony left -- 3. Dropping out -- 4. Summer fun -- Part II: Two L -- 5. Liberal chic -- 6. Everyone does it -- 7. Judicial clerkships -- 8. Learning real law -- 9. Dickens and the law -- 10. Ropes & Gray -- Part III: Three L -- 11. Bore you to death -- 12. Out of the question -- 13. Qualms is good -- 14. Hill search blues -- Epilogue