THE SKILLS A LAWYER'S GOTTA HAVE

Let's get into it. For said lawyer to get ahead she has to be able to do some things and the good news is that while said things are constant and fixed in concrete, the HOW to do them are as flexible and varied as personality types vary from lawyer to lawyer.
To get a stumbking block out of the way, there is the prevalent notion that all the lawyer has to be is as bright as a pin and all will fall into place but this is incomplete. There are other stuff that will be helpful to have and they force you to be able to do better stuff.

The skills are:
A. The ability to show the client you understand the problem.
B. The ability to have a meaningful conversation.
C. The ability to learn how to think.
D. The ability to convince clients to give you their business..

Let us stop in at these four to explain further.

The idea is simple; building a mahogany table means four legs and a table top. The quality of each piece of wood used for each part fixes the quality of the final table.
In your law firm you already use the four skills in various ways with different levels of success but what we suggest is sitting down and putting your mind to what these skills mean and the only way you know you have locked it down is when you can do it effortlessly without struggle, when you succeed at it and most importantly when you accept that the excuses you give for your failures are just that.
Excuses.