I agree with both @BKSquared and @cquin85 . Writing is always important, whatever sort of lawyer you want to be. A corporate lawyer needs to be able to explain complex issues to clients in simple terms and needs to be able to draft with thoughtful precision so that people who weren’t around when a contract was drafted (a judge, for example) can figure out what the parties actually intended. Litigators need a somewhat different writing skill set - I am always a bit jealous because they get to use more adjectives - but writing is still critical. The advice about picking up accounting and financial skills is also spot-on. A lawyer who can read a set of financial statements and really understand them will be way ahead of the game - many law students miss this and are disinclined to study something they may regard as mundane relative to, say, constitutional law, but the joy of finding a smoking gun in a financial footnote cannot be overstated.
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