I found a few sections in Deloitte's In-house Insights Report, “Trusted navigators in complex and challenging environments”, prepared in response to the September 2022 survey of New Zealand's in-house legal community, fascinating.
They were questions about the skills of the in-house legal profession, and in particular:
- What legal skills do you consider will be most important for you to be able to perform your role in the next 2 years and
- What non-legal skills do you consider will be most important for you to be able to perform your role in the next 2 years.
If they are skills that a lawyer needs to perform their role, then aren't they ALL legal skills?