Old Lady Lawyer: Effective Lawyering Is More Than Just Knowing The Law
Academic skills will always have their place in education, but they are not necessarily reliable predictors of effective lawyering.
Academic skills will always have their place in education, but they are not necessarily reliable predictors of effective lawyering.
Performance on the LSAT is negatively correlated with networking ability. — Vice Provost and Professor Sheldon Zedeck of UC Berkeley, at a panel entitled Beyond Grades and Scores: Factors Predicting Lawyer Success and Effectiveness, at the annual NALP conference (which concluded yesterday).
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.