I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Salon's reviewer likes the same line in Kermit Roosevelt's In the Shadow of the Law that I did: pro bono death penalty cases for summer associates are "something the kids could get really excited about ... like a class project or a hamster brought in to delight kindergartners ... like hamsters, the prisoners usually ended up dead." It's a fun book -- I wouldn't necessarily call it a thriller, but it's witty and intriguing and very, very sharply observed, and Kim's savage caricature of the Supreme Court clerk hits a bit close to home -- which is to his credit, since he's a former Souter clerk.