<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175379.msg8307919#msg8307919">Quote from: kckolbe on 29-05-2013, 22:35:53</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">So, the associated attribute isn't really that big a factor then?  For example, Sebastian currently has a 3 in knowledge: law, but has Highly Educated and an Intelligence of 17, which I figured enough to bump him into the professional category.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>All that's needed is a good story to explain the numbers -- while he was in paralegal training, one of his teachers got wind of his knowledge of the art world and the fact that he had earlier worked as a clerk at the county courthouse and could be quite useful.<br/><br/>"No need to finish your training, we'll take care of the credentialing, what we need is someone with a working knowledge of 22nd century pottery and knows Judge Johnson's clerk so we can get a postponement."<br/><br/>"No problem, you can replace the form 22-f in the packet with a 22-e then when the error is discovered you claim you need more time to get the information needed for the new form.  It happens all the time."<br/><br/>So he can do the routine work of a paralegal - printing out the form whereby A gives B his power of attorney to sell his car, and hopefully the paralegal doesn't accidental give B the power to terminate A's life support.  He can look up and print out a copy of<em>Hook v. Pan, Darling, et al</em>and highlight significant points, but he won't be doing what lawyers do.  Hence, a cursory knowledge of the law is sufficient, but his knowledge of the bureaucracy that administers the law is what's valued.