Mathematics
Ignorance is positively harmful. Fortunately, there are certain cases where ignorance in a certain field can be compensated by advanced knowledge in another. A curious example where this is true is in demanding No Win No Fee UK claims. You may be surprised to know that even ignorance in basic jurisprudence can be no problem, if you are knowledgeable in a different field, for example, mathematics.
Knowledge in arithmetic and mathematics, while they are no substitutes for legal acumen, can help you prepare to understand legal theorems. The reason is that legal reasoning is very similar to geometrical reasoning. Just as in this branch of math, legal argumentation is about making logical steps and assigning rules and principles to validate them. In other words, in proving that a law applies to a certain case, the lawyer must show that the facts of that case are all covered by the requirements posited by the law it is being touted of being under. This is not much different from arguing why the inscribed arc of a circle is equal to half the value of the arc using the rules of geometry. Thus, a different kind of knowledge can serve as a preparatory tool for other ones.
History
A taste for reading historical works will be rewarded by the claiming process. Because defending your No Win No Fee UK claims requires summoning up precedents or former cases to validate your claim, an active interest in what has gone before in the lives of other people will help you greatly. More than this, a desire to understand also the common link which actuates different historical episodes will also be helpful. If you, like all great historical writers of the past, such as Herodotus, Thucydides, Edward Gibbon, and Arnold Toynbee, have a yearning to reduce all history to a definite theme or abstraction, then you can greatly be an asset to your lawyer, because the primary task of legal research is precisely this identification and proof that a common principle has been invoked to decide upon different cases, which must also apply to the one in consideration.
Thus, it is fallacious to say that only people with legal training will make for good lawyers. The truth is that the best lawyers are usually those who have undergone legal training without forgetting the essential skills of whatever pre-law degrees they may have taken. Jurisprudence will benefit from knowledge in math, history, the languages, and even the natural sciences.
