In fact, few legal practices have gone under because the lawyers within them were poor lawyers, he says. He added: 'Smart people overestimate the importance of being a smart person. To be the best lawyer, or the best collection of lawyers, is not enough; it doesn’t even guarantee you stay in the game.'
Technical skills
Chancellor Wu went on to give some advice, in an article in Huffington Post, which appears to suggest that lawyers would do well to recruit top level specialists such as marketers and IT experts. He said: 'It is necessary to be great businesspeople, too. Or to affiliate with great businesspeople, which means recognizing that the technical skills needed to be a great lawyer might (or might not) correlate with the other skills needed to thrive.' Source: ABA
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