[HitmanLV]

Yea, I agree. I am a lawyer and worked with very bright people who did very well in school, but truly most barely manage to keep their heads afloat in the office world.

By a wide margin, most of the attys I have known and worked closely with (several hundred in the toughest lawyer market in the USA, NYC) are dull individuals, much more interested in avoiding blame and passing the buck, than doing anything of merit. It's not their fault - it's a symptom of the system they are in.

That being said, independent of that, I would not trust most of these Ivy School geniuses to balance a checkbook. I certainly don't trust any to watch my back.

The smartest man I know is still my dad, though. Could he write a killer brief for court in a 3-day weekend? Nope. Could he smell trouble, a phony, a racket, a waste of time, from 100 miles away? You bet!

I like to think he taught me that. So far, I've done ok! ;-)

[ovrtaxt]

Sounds like my wife. Not as booksmart as I am, but man can she tell when someone is lying, even being a little disengenuous. It's freaky as anything.

Of course, she grew up in a REALLY bad neighborhood, so her 'street smarts' were well developed.