That's not as common as it used to be. But this was what you were trying to do each and every day. You just had an enormous, enormous amount of reading. You would generally read and brief cases, meaning you would take notes and prepare summaries of cases before class, so that the class was more meaningful to you. Today's a good example of the typical day.
Clients call a lot.
I entered my billing time from last Friday on my computer. Then I have a very important meeting at New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection today at 2. I have a client who is developing one of the largest pieces of urban waterfront land in the world. This meeting has a lot of participants, so I drafted an agenda for the meeting and I faxed it to everybody. In a typical day, I'll get between 40 and 50 telephone calls.