>> Definitely more on the economic and statistic [phonetic] side.
I mean all of our clients are lawyers.
I would say 97% of our clients are lawyers, but we're not advising them on the legal issues.
We know a bit about the law especially in the areas that we work in most frequently,
but even when I'm talking to my clients I'll say to them, you know,
obviously this is not a legal opinion but, you know, a sort of lay person's opinion,
everyday person's opinion coupled with what I know about the data, the economics,
the statistics, this is what I feel and then they take that, the lawyers take that
and determine, okay, well, according to so and so statutes, you know, this client may be liable
to pay whatever and so we get bits and pieces of the law but mostly it's the math side
and I think probably one of the best ways to prepare for this sort of job is to take classes
that require you to really bridge the gap between the numbers and the words.
People who can take quantitative analysis and explain
that to any audience those are the people who succeed and that's actually a spiel
that I learned through my public policy classes where you're basically putting yourself
in the shoes of the policy analyst and you're attempting
to explain a position to various people.
If you're my policy analyst colleague and I explain something to you,
we can use the same lingo, same jargon, the same statistical terms
because we have similar backgrounds.
If I'm trying to explain, if you're the mayor and I'm trying to explain something to you
as the mayor, maybe you don't know the intricate details of this particular policy
or maybe you don't know statistics and so I need to explain it to you
so that you can understand what I'm doing whereas if I just throw out some, you know,
policy analysis jargon or statistical jargon, you're going to be confused.