He's a legend in his own mind.
More common than you'd think. The media judges attorneys by a completely different standard than us lawyer folk. The ones that are lionized by the media are pretty much uniformly despised as grandstanders and showboaters by the guys in the trenches.
Something my dad told me at the time of the Patty Hearst trial has always stuck with me. (He is retired now but he had 50 years in the courtroom, and he was a better lawyer than I will ever be.) Anyhow, he said that her family made a huge mistake hiring Flea Bailey, another one of those media-beloved lawyers. He said what her father should have done is gone down to the courthouse and asked the courthouse rats who they would recommend as the best defense attorney in the county. Usually you can ask 15 or 20 of them, and they will recommend the same 2 or 3 guys. And those guys are the unsung, hard-working, competent, seasoned defense attorneys who work with those judges day in and day out. They know their jurisdiction's law, they know their county's juries, and they get the job done.
Dad said if one of those "courthouse rats" had defended Patty Hearst, she never would have seen a day in prison and might have walked away with an acquittal.
Smart man, your dad.