legal sanity
business degrees make for better lawyers?
Do business schools build better lawyers? This article suggests that they might. According to the piece, as “governance issues take center stage for corporate clients and deal-making gets more complex,” more working and prospective lawyers are discovering the career-enhancing benefits of a B-school degree. Business people are coming to the table with more legal knowledge and they expect their legal advisors to be fluent in the workings of the business world. When steeped in business knowledge, the article states, lawyers see the legal issue from both sides and better serve their clients needs. This article brought back some law school memories for me. As a third year, I was allowed to take night school classes. I was always impressed with the way night students used their business savvy and real world understanding of human nature to address legal questions. As part of the labor force, they already knew in law school what it takes others years to understand as law firm associates working at arms length on business disputes and transactions. Will business school help you in your legal career? Perhaps. But, to my mind, my night school peers’ on-the-job education gave them incomparable insight into the real interplay between the business and legal realms.