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Speaking out of my depth here but why not I have admin power on a forum of queers, I must know everything about everything.
Just like with most non-practical schools, law school doesn't seem to prepare you for actually practicing law. It is a separate skill to memorize cases and reference them in papers or to pass the bar, than to think creatively and against an opponent who is working to make you fail. I bet high level chess GMs could likely be excellent lawyers. We joke about brinton's user of gamesmanship, but that's the entire job doofus. Unless you're just doing contract boilerplate law, thats what you do with every motion,hearing and trial.
Law school is grueling, but I think that's the main part. The slog. That's what I've heard from a lot of PHDs, and PHD dropouts in my field. The dropouts are often the smartest ones. A few stats PHDs that dropped out to work in data analytics i've talked to said that unless you want to just work in academia your whole life. Fight for grants, 1-2 major research programs in your entire career, and likely fail your hypothesis at both... why the fuck would you keep going. Remember you can take the bar as many times as you want.
tl/dr - law school is hard but the difficulties don't translate to the practical application of those skills in the real world.