There are a lot of starving lawyers out there.
Some are quite talented.
And a lot of useless ones. For every lawyer with A-average grades, there are a dozen with C-average grades, and the mentality to boot. My sister-in-law's boyfriend is a lawyer and always taunts strangers with "I'm a lawyer, I know stuff.". I tell the strangers that he's an idiot that doesn't know common sense. I've challenged him on quite a few topics where I corrected him and he had to back off.