To be fair,
1. LRW is not really P/F. It's H, P, LP, F.
2. Cold-calling happens all the time at HLS, just not in section 2 (or 5?) much.
3. HLS has it easy in terms of number of substantive classes.
4. Reading must vary by professor. For example, my Civ Pro prof, were she able to get through what she assigns, would put us through like 60 pages per day. Luckily, we cover roughly 2.5 pages/day. Ah, civ pro.
5. Some prof's want law school to be hard, even if it isn't. This is why my crim law prof asks impossible questions every class.
That said, law school isn't hard. It's more like elementary school (in many ways) than rocket science.
EDIT: This doesn't mean I claim to know anything about the law or expect to do well.