Question for lawyers/law students

[Kevin]

I start law school in the Fall.

My father is an attorney, and has been for 35 years. He's VERY accomplished. He was 1st Assistant Attorney General under probably the most activist AG Administration this state has ever seen. Turned all 3 branches of government on their head. As a result, he's probably argued as many jury trials, or as many times in front of the Supreme Court as anyone in the state... etc. etc... very accomplished..

Anyhow, when I start school, I'll have worked as his assistant for 1 year. Everyone I've talked to thus far (students, lawyers, judges) has told me how I'll have such an edge on everyone in my classes because of my experience dealing with real clients, real situations, a variety of different types of cases, etc. I'll admit, through it all, I don't deal with legal concepts. I deal with fact gathering, fact analysis, compiling discovery, sorting through discovery, that sort of thing (the grunt work).

As I said, everyone says I'll have this huge "edge". And as I've been reading through some of my dad's old law treatises (reading through one on Contracts right now), I'm realizing how I haven't even scratched the surface when it comes to dealing with legal concepts. When everyone says that I'm advantaged, what do they mean? What will I be better prepared for that no one else will be? I'm told this almost on a daily basis, but looking at the material, having sat through a class up at the school now, etc., I just don't see it. What can y'all tell me that'll clear this up for me?