“Hi, Professor Jones. It’s Associate Dean Walker’s administrative assistant. Do you have time this afternoon? She’d like to speak with you.”
“What do I owe this pleasure to?” asked Steve. He spun around in his office chair and admired his academic degrees.
“Are you free at 2 p.m.?” asked the administrative assistant.
“I guess I don’t have a choice. Although I’d rather watch paint dry than talk to our wonderful law school deans.”
Jane Walker was the arch nemesis of Steve Jones. Jane went to Yale Law School and graduated top of her class. She clerked for a Supreme Court justice and then became a law school professor at Columbia University. She was recruited to Miami to become the Associate Dean, as she was a leading tax scholar. Her colleagues loved her and described her as a terrific le
