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Panelists, what do you do when you are the LAST person to answer the same question all the other panelists answered already?
Here’s how it went down:
“I had the honor of sitting on an alumni panel recently where the moderator asked each of us what special skill-sets we had developed over our years of our practice. Since I had to go last and all the other good answers had been taken, I replied that I was uniquely qualified to survive a zombie apocalypse. Everybody tittered politely and eventually I conceded and said, ‘You need to be likable.’ Again everybody dutifully laughed, but I was being deadly serious. About that and surviving the zombie apocalypse.
Why be likable? Because it’s in your best interest and it’s amazing how many attorneys I meet who don’t bother to master this simple skill that should have been learned back in grade school.”
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