The government has been run by attorneys who also have friends in high places (The Firm).
"...if it feels like Obama is surrounded by more lawyers than, say Bush, it could because of the myriad of advisers, directors and czars. According to The Daily Beast, there are roughly twenty—and counting—Obama czars, and many of those power-posts have gone to, you guessed it, lawyers.
Biden, Clinton, Holder... head the pack. Obama as well.. Harvard Law ’91 (Current Ranking: 2) Practice: Hopkins & Sutter (summer), Chicago based firm that handles some of the government's most SENSITIVE and highly publicized banking cases ; Sidley & Austin - Chicago/Asia (summer)Sidley antitrust team boasts a portfolio of heath-care clients. Much of this work has been part of the headline-grabbing generic drug litigation in courts all over the country, led by Sidley partner and Who's Who nominee John W Treece.
Note, Obama worked summers.