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Law-drafting isn't the entire job of representation. Also, current performance, such as using legislation written by consortia of corporations with lobbying interests, doesn't speak highly for such specialization.

You might as well require representatives be CPAs, or MBAs, since budget allocation and oversight of spending is at least as important as making laws.

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Absolutely, the executive needs CPAs and MBAs, the legislative needs lawyers, the judiciary needs judges and to be honest that's the only one where meritocracy permeates, just add a little randomization instead of handpicking, that's all.

That's not what I wrote. Elected representatives get away with not being accountants by hiring accountants to staff the CBO. Similarly lawyers could be hired for drafting unambiguous legislation based on position papers.

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