{"id":165465,"date":"2026-10-21T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/21\/blame-this-man-for-your-cold-call-nightmares\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:27:10","slug":"blame-this-man-for-your-cold-call-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/21\/blame-this-man-for-your-cold-call-nightmares\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame This Man For Your Cold-Call Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Every American law student who has ever dreaded a cold-call or slogged through a casebook can trace the torment to one man. Starting in 1870, which Harvard Law dean threw out the old model of lectures and memorization and rebuilt legal education around reading appellate decisions and getting grilled about them in class?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: He insisted that law was a \u201cscience\u201d and the library its laboratory, wrote the very first casebook himself because none existed, and weathered a near-revolt from students before his approach spread to nearly every law school in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/blame-this-man-for-your-cold-call-nightmares\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blame This Man For Your Cold-Call Nightmares<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/Harvard-Law-School-Long-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Every American law student who has ever dreaded a cold-call or slogged through a casebook can trace the torment to one man. Starting in 1870, which Harvard Law dean threw out the old model of lectures and memorization and rebuilt legal education around reading appellate decisions and getting grilled about them in class?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: He insisted that law was a \u201cscience\u201d and the library its laboratory, wrote the very first casebook himself because none existed, and weathered a near-revolt from students before his approach spread to nearly every law school in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/blame-this-man-for-your-cold-call-nightmares\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/blame-this-man-for-your-cold-call-nightmares\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Every American law student who has ever dreaded a cold-call or slogged through a casebook can trace the torment to one man. Starting in 1870, which Harvard Law dean threw out the old model of lectures and memorization and rebuilt legal education around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}