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What's Your <i>IQ</i>?

Transactional attorneys must ask and answer a deep and relevant question: 'On what does it depend?' If, as Sir Francis Bacon wrote, knowledge is power, then the answer to that 'what' in the question lies in an attorney's information quotient, or IQ.

23 minute readJanuary 31, 2007 at 10:28 AM
By
Emile Loza
What's Your <i>IQ</i>?

'It depends'

That is the accurate, but tired, attorney's response to almost any question. So typical is this response that it has become a classic, albeit entirely predictable and uninformative.

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