Harvard Law Alum With ‘Highest GPA’ Joins the Obama-Biden Team

Ronald Klain, a former partner of O'Melveny & Myers who served as chief of staff to vice president Al Gore, will now reportedly reprise that role as chief of staff to vice president-elect Joe Biden.

And Klain has another qualification, too: Not only is he a Harvard law grad, like many other members of the transition team for Biden and president-elect Barack Obama, but he's also one of the best and the brightest, according to the Am Law Daily.

As a student at Harvard Law School, Klain won the Sears Prize, four of which are awarded annually to the first- and second-year students with the highest grade point averages. He graduated magna cum laude in 1987 and started clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White in the same year, Politico reports.

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Updated at 7:45 a.m. Nov. 14 to make a headline change, and at 11:08 a.m to correct misdated information.