At CES 2026, a McKinsey & Company  panel outlined the  “new” skills employers will value in the age of agentic AI. These include things like asking the right questions, showing judgment in gray areas, and demonstrating passion and resilience. All things GenAI can’t do or can’t do very well. 

But these are the skills that have always separated the exceptional lawyers from everyone else. They will be even more essential in the future though. 

Here’s my recent post for Above the Law