Soft skills do not get much attention in law firms. That was my experience when I was practicing in small, medium and larger firms, and it still is the case today. Law firms are focused on leveraging, billable hours, business development and profits per partner. I am often informed by practitioners that “time in law firms is far too precious to prioritize attention to things like soft skills … whatever those are.” Soft skills also are not taught in law schools. The hard skills of strong legal analysis, proficient statutory construction, effective legal writing and persuasive legal argument get priority to produce “practice ready” lawyers, or so the theory goes. Ever-increasing and evolving substantive law puts pressure on law schools to teach what is tested on bar exams, and pass rates matter a lot to law school administrators. Even hard skills can get short shrift in that kind of competitive academic environment. When I was a teaching fellow at a Top 15 law school, there was barely enough time to adequately address effective legal writing, a vital and necessary hard skill. And the competition for teaching time in law schools was a lot less pronounced then than it is today…. Read full this story
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