Not entirely silly, to be honest, because nothing succeeds like capable people.
But to assert that people are the essence of a law department is ingenuous. Without systems and organization, people flounder; without technology they bump along ineffectually; without processes they reinvent the hole in wheels; without support staff they waste their time; sans leadership they wander in the desert; take away culture and values and they roam as mavericks.
As the Germans wouldn’t say, “People über alles is dumkopf.”