Editor’s note: Being a law school dean is a prestigious, high-profile position involving hard work and administrative savvy. But deans do have lives outside the office. To give readers a glimpse of the deans’ off-duty lives, Texas Lawyer law editor Jacylyn Gardner e-mailed Texas’ nine American Bar Association-accredited law schools a brief Q&A for the deans and interim dean. Seven e-mailed responses are below, edited for length and style. Questionnaires for Dean John B. Attanasio of Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in Dallas and Dean Lawrence Sager of the University of Texas School of Law in Austin were not returned before presstime on May 20.

Raymond T. Nimmer, University of Houston Law Center, Houston

Raymond T. Nimmer, Dean, University of Houston Law Center