> I don't personally believe that any single other skill is more important to being an effective lawyer I’ll posit one more: a holistic intuition of how the la

> I don't personally believe that any single other skill is more important to being an effective lawyer I’ll posit one more: a holistic intuition of how the law “works”. The law is unfathomably large. As a lawyer, you have to make numerous decisions that involve novel circumstances or that you simply don’t have the opportunity to research beforehand. So you need to base a surprising number of decisions on instinct, experience, or derivation from first principles.