Harvard Law provides no decent education, what it provides is a long list of insider contacts. So simply going there doesn't mean you have good aptitude.
The few Harvard or Yale lawyers that are truly good attorneys, would have been just as good had they gone to any other law school. Most are woefully ignorant of basic law, and completely clueless about any sophisticated legal concepts. Your comments, 1OldPro, are spot on.
As someone that has employed two Harvard trained liars, your assessment is spot on. I hired the first one just because of his “contacts” knowing it would be easier maneuvering my project along, but I had a competent attorney overseeing everything.
Way back when......there used to be a show called “The Paper Chase” which starred John Goodman (IIRC) and some other actor I can’t remember. The forgettable actor was involved in the Paper Chase at Harvard for his law degree and John Goodman was the crusty old master professor who supposedly drilled all the finer points of law, ethics, and other Hollywood BS into the ‘students’.
In retrospect, it was all drivel and it’s really nothing better than you say...... affords the opportunity to develop insider contacts, and in Harvard’s case, that means pure leftist. Lifelong leftist membership in the cabal.
He’s aggressively stupid. The worst kind of stupid.
It’s said that the hard part about Harvard in general is figuring out how to get in, not the curriculum or the grading. Consider how Barack Obama is reported by first hand account of retired Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton about how Sutton contacted a very specific Muxlum Texan who had pull with Harvard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynbkSo3j6Eg
Elle Woods would agree with that ...