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The Associate

By Tim Zinnecker

I read John Grisham's book, The Associate, this week.  I enjoyed the story (notwithstanding my expectation of a different ending).

In a brief part of the book, the main character (a recent Yale law grad) is preparing for the bar exam.   This sentence caught my eye:

"During three years of law school, they had dreaded the day they would be forced to revisit the murky world of federal taxation or the tedium of the Uniform Commercial Code, but the day was at hand."  (pages 124-25)

Federal taxation "murky"? 

The UCC "tedious"?

BLASPHEMY!!!

OK, tax and UCC folks, is it time for a Grisham boycott?  Paul Caron, are you with me?

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on December 12, 2009 (boomark / email).