I think the answer to this is unquestionably yes. I don’t have much more to go on than my own experience as a student (and wishful thinking about my experience as a professor), but even at one of the least practice-oriented law schools in the country, I learned an awful lot about the law, how to do legal research, and how to make legal arguments.

An example I frequently cite to my first-year students who may be feeling at sea: when I started law school, I had no idea that there were two separate court systems, federal and state. If I was typical in that respect, then certainly there’s a lot of value to at least a couple of years of law school classes.