Humility

Humility is something not ordinarily associated with lawyers, but it should be. The few lawyers who possess true humility – the ones who are the least self-aggrandizing and the most willing to sacrifice their egos to assist others - are the most highly respected, have the largest social networks and have the highest degree of career satisfaction. This fact may seem counter-intuitive. Most lawyers automatically recoil when they hear the word “humility,” because they confuse it with being timid, lacking in self-confidence and allowing oneself to be degraded or stepped on. These lawyers are confusing humility, with something negative. They haven’t discovered that humility is a virtue found in happy people who attract the friendship and loyalty of others and who positively influence the people around them.