The dean of the University of Colorado School of Law, decided that I couldn’t return to class next fall because my grades were too low. He said I would never make a lawyer. Even today words cannot describe my upset. I’d never really failed at anything significant1. After all, the University of Colorado at Boulder was a Taj Mahalthe door to judicial clerk ships and prestigious2 law firms.
But I decided to try again and went to see Clifford Mills, the dean of Westminster Cortege of Law—a poor man’s school with no tenured professors or law review. After reading my college transcript, Dean Mill