This paper examines the value that lawyers in Greece attribute to knowledge of economics and business methods, identifying the legal fields in which it is most useful and the areas of economic and business expertise that support legal practice. Our findings, based on a survey of Greek legal professionals indicate the broad relevance of economics and business methods across various legal fields. Our findings suggest that lawyers benefit most from knowledge of economics for business, market functioning, and competition and antitrust economics, alongside an understanding of law office organisation. Prior advanced education and professional roles also significantly influence perceptions of the usefulness of economics and business methods knowledge. Lawyers with advanced economic education tend to recognise the value of economic knowledge more broadly across all the examined areas of economics. Similarly, business legal advisors view economic knowledge as beneficial to their practice, whereas self-employed legal practitioners tend to assign slightly lower importance to economic knowledge. Legal specialisation emerges as a key factor shaping the perceived usefulness of different areas of economic and business knowledge..These findings offer guidance for curriculum development, particularly for courses in applied economics and business methods aimed at better equipping future lawyers for the contemporary legal environment. .
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