Possible Clues:

• Nash's "The ___ Lama"
• Like Nash's lama (not llama)
• Law school beginner
• Turow memoir about first-year law students
• Turow book about the first year of law school
• Turow novel set at Harvard
• Contracts class student
• Autobiographical Turow book
• Feature of American paneling, but not British?
• Answer to "How do you Yanks spell 'travelling'?"