“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm,” Latin writer and former slave Publilius Syrus is credited as having said around the 4th century BC.
Syrus may not have been thinking about economic tensions at the time, and the notion of ‘Big Law’ and all its entrapments may have seemed totally fanciful more than 2000 years ago—but the importance of leadership at difficult times is one for the ages.
