Skills

--Editor's Note: This article is adapted from The Book of Agreement: 10 Essential Elements for Getting the Results You Want by Stewart Levine (Berrett-Koehler, Dec. 2002.)

Are YOU A Renaissance Lawyer?

By J. Kim Wright & Kevin B. Ginsberg

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." Victor Hugo

What feeds you in your law practice?
Do you like to solve problems?
Are you able to be creative, and use your creativity to help people?
Do you see yourself as a pioneer?

A lawyer friend, Sharif, spent Thanksgiving Day of 2004 in the hospital. He went there for emergency surgery to remove his appendix. A few hours after the surgery, Sharif found himself in a pool of blood. Nurses tried to be super-professional in the midst of the emergency but Sharif said he could tell they were in a panic and he thought he was going to die. The quick diagnosis was internal bleeding (although Sharif said it looked very external to him!) He was taken back into surgery and the two little holes from the laparoscopic surgery became a five inch incision. A few days later, Dr.