He started as an academic first so he’s pretty unusual. LLMs and JSDs are not useful in private practice (except tax LLMs). He’s a brilliant man who would have done well no matter what qualifications he had gotten.

Jayanthi Sadanandan is a leveraged finance lawyer so the absolute opposite of that academic profile - still doing very successfully!

And Milton Cheng did the standard uni - TC route with no further qualifications (and he graduated from King’s which is a college a lot of the trolls here like to make fun of)!