The lone lawyer is dying out, according to Kenneth Grady of SeyfarthLean Consulting. “Employers are looking for knowledge workers who come out from behind closed doors, use their social skills, and lead small and large groups to success,” he says.
That’s not to say working individually doesn’t have benefits. Substantive legal issues often require individual attention, he says. But when it comes to overall strategy? Clients want groups to address the problem. “Much of the time, lawyers are tasked with addressing tough social, organization, strategic, and other problems that are broader than the legal issue involved,” he says. Traditionally, these would be dealt with by outside counsel but more and more, it’s in-house counsel taking the lead these days, he says.
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