A very particular set of skills - by Benn Stancil

If you ran a mid-sized coffee chain, and a million Yale-educated lawyers showed up at your corporate headquarters offering you their services for $5.92 an hour, you would have four options: Ask them to leave. You already have an in-house lawyer that you probably like, and you don’t need a million more. Replace your current lawyer. Even if you like them, they almost certainly cost a lot more than $5.92 an hour, and you probably don’t like them that much. You might even replace your lawyer with ten lawyers: Perhaps you’re constantly negotiating new leases and navigating complex employment regulations and fighting lawsuits about not putting any pineapple in your Pineapple Passionfruit Refresher.1 For $5.92 an hour, you might as well hire an entire team of lawyers. Hire the lawyers to do other jobs. Yale-educated lawyers are smart, and can probably learn how to do other useful things at your friendly neighborhood coffee conglomerate. They might be good baristas, coffee bean procurement man

If you ran a mid-sized coffee chain, and a million Yale-educated lawyers showed up at your corporate headquarters offering you their services for $5.92 an hour, you would have four options: Ask them to leave. You already have an in-house lawyer that you probably like, and you don’t need a million more. Replace your current lawyer. Even if you like them, they almost certainly cost a lot more than $5.92 an hour, and you probably don’t like them that much. You might even replace your lawyer with ten lawyers: Perhaps you’re constantly negotiating new leases and navigating complex employment regula