She couldn't pass the Illinois Bar exam on the first attempt. In her first job as an attorney, she was ultimately assigned work in marketing and intellectual property. Here you have recent Harvard Law School graduate doing marketing and intellectual property. Without a technical degree, she could never become a patent attorney and work on the full scope of intellectual property law.
She was pretty clearly in a "do no damage" position. However, it get's better because she was assigned to mentor Barack. You only mentor someone you work with so, young Obama, fresh from Harvard Law School must have been assigned as a new hire to the "do no damage" and dead end job of marketing and intellectual property
May be a great guy but you put him where he can't hurt anybody or anything ~