Silliness about chanting that people are the core of the law department

Not entirely silly, to be honest, because nothing succeeds like capable people.

But to assert that people are the essence of a law department is ingenuous. Without systems and organization, people flounder; without technology they bump along ineffectually; without processes they reinvent the hole in wheels; without support staff they waste their time; sans leadership they wander in the desert; take away culture and values and they roam as mavericks.

As the Germans wouldn’t say, “People über alles is dumkopf.”