Interestingly, my observation has been the exact opposite. Take a look at Harvard Law School's faculty. It seems to consist almost exclusively of Harvard Law and Yale Law grads. A notable exception is "Native American" Elizabeth Warren, who is a Rutgers University grad.
Silly, that's only LawWorld.
In LawWorld, your LawValue is determined primary on the LawSchoolYouAttended.
If you go to HarvardYaleStanford, you get an infinite number of LawPrestigePoints that you can exchange for a legal professorial position at any school of your choosing.
However,if you went to a LesserButStillValuable school like ColumbiaMichiganNYUPennDukeCornellBerkely, then you get a few LawPrestigePoints that you can exchange for a legal professorial position at a LawSchoolWithoutPrestige.
If you went to a LawSchoolWithoutPrestige and you want to become a law professor, then, sorry, you went to the wrong school.
(Yes, the legal profession is this status-obsessed. It also lacks an objective criteria of quality. When you combine these two and couple it with infinite student loans, you get the awesome spectacle of the modern legal academy.)
