Sure, gish-galloping and obscurantism work in many educational fields, and sometimes those knowlegeable ones in the room just want to get on with the day. I think more than one degree is obtained on the premise that they never want to see that guy again.
Funny, I also said gish-gallop before seeing your response. We’re on the same page, the only question is whether it’s a gish-gallop (BS on too many details to check), or what is called a jargon attack or technical violence: cite so many accurate unrelated factoids that you wear down the listeners. I’m not going to invest time in listening to that attorney to find out. That’s the kind of thing I pay for real journalism to learn.