{"id":156314,"date":"2026-07-10T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/10\/stats-of-the-week-soft-skills-are-all-the-rage\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:25:00","slug":"stats-of-the-week-soft-skills-are-all-the-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/10\/stats-of-the-week-soft-skills-are-all-the-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"Stat(s) Of The Week: \u2018Soft Skills\u2019 Are All The Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As AI tools continue to make inroads in the law, so-called soft skills like emotional intelligence and collaboration are increasingly critical to career success, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n

But roughly half of the law students and associates in the study use \u201cfair\u201d or \u201cpoor\u201d to describe their institution\u2019s support in developing these types of skills.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The BARBRI-sponsored report, \u201cEnvisioning Success: The 2026 Career Aspirations Survey,<\/a>\u201d is based on an ATL survey of more than 300 law students, associates, partners, and law firm staff about their career goals, the impact of AI on those goals, and the effectiveness of the professional skills training offered by their schools and firms.<\/p>\n

Seventy-seven percent of law students, 75% of associates, and 58% of partners believe that AI has made soft skills more critical for professional advancement, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Yet not everyone feels that these needs are being met.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fifty-two percent of students say their school does only a \u201cfair\u201d or \u201cpoor\u201d job developing soft skills. And while many associates describe their firm\u2019s efforts as \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cexcellent,\u201d 46% rate them \u201cfair\u201d or \u201cpoor.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more insights on the challenges of career development in the AI age, download a copy of the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The post Stat(s) Of The Week: \u2018Soft Skills\u2019 Are All The Rage<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As AI tools continue to make inroads in the law, so-called soft skills like emotional intelligence and collaboration are increasingly critical to career success, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n

But roughly half of the law students and associates in the study use \u201cfair\u201d or \u201cpoor\u201d to describe their institution\u2019s support in developing these types of skills.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The BARBRI-sponsored report, \u201cEnvisioning Success: The 2026 Career Aspirations Survey,<\/a>\u201d is based on an ATL survey of more than 300 law students, associates, partners, and law firm staff about their career goals, the impact of AI on those goals, and the effectiveness of the professional skills training offered by their schools and firms.<\/p>\n

Seventy-seven percent of law students, 75% of associates, and 58% of partners believe that AI has made soft skills more critical for professional advancement, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Yet not everyone feels that these needs are being met.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fifty-two percent of students say their school does only a \u201cfair\u201d or \u201cpoor\u201d job developing soft skills. And while many associates describe their firm\u2019s efforts as \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cexcellent,\u201d 46% rate them \u201cfair\u201d or \u201cpoor.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more insights on the challenges of career development in the AI age, download a copy of the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The post Stat(s) Of The Week: \u2018Soft Skills\u2019 Are All The Rage<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As AI tools continue to make inroads in the law, so-called soft skills like emotional intelligence and collaboration are increasingly critical to career success, according to a new survey. But roughly half of the law students and associates in the study use \u201cfair\u201d or \u201cpoor\u201d to describe their institution\u2019s support in developing these types of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stat-of-the-week-image-Zujlnb.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}