The general counsel’s resume: B.A. and J.D. Is the first degree merely an unavoidable prerequisite to the second? Not really. Art, poetry and music inform, expand and enrich their students. It’s the thoughtful GC, not one mindlessly wedded to regulations and needlessly ensnared by minutia, that C-level executives prize the most. Broad knowledge is an invaluable strength, not a useless credential.
In 1919, William Butler Yeats’ “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” was published. In the clouds, where the imagined airman’s thoughts are his own and his desire is inescapable, he flashes on a moment of moral clarity: “Those that I fight I do not hate/Those that I guard I do not love.”
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