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Excerpt: "At trial, legal knowledge, analytical skills, and pure grit make a difference, but winning over a judge or jury depends on that blend of self-awareness, empathy, and interpersonal skills that is essential to persuasion
Partner Ronald Machen, Chair of WilmerHale's
Litigation Department, and Senior Associate Brittany Llewellyn, authored a Bloomberg
Law article about the importance of cultivating emotional
intelligence, or EI, for success as litigators, making it a key
complement to their legal knowledge and analytical skills.
Originally published on 27 October 2025 in Bloomberg
Law
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