Don't Give Up! Why You Should Work with the Best Law Firm You Can as Long as You Can.pptx.pdf

Don't Give Up! Why You
Should Work with the Best
Law Firm You Can as Long
as You Can
BY HARRISON BARNES

Introduction
My typical conversation with law firm attorneys—
● young and old alike, at top firms and small
firms, in large cities and smaller cities—
● involves their decision (or contemplation) of
giving up on law firms completely.

Introduction
That’s right:
● The majority of law firm attorneys are ready to
give up and quit the law firm world (or “trade
down” to a law firm that will not challenge them).
● You are not alone by any stretch of the
imagination.
● Most attorneys are in your shoes and thinking
the very same thing you are.

Introduction
I was recently working with a well-known founding
partner of a major American law firm with a huge
book of business.
● To my astonishment, he turned down several
highly lucrative law firm offers (two that were
close to the mid-seven figures) and took a job
in-house paying a fraction of what he could have
made in a law firm.

Introduction
I speak with attorneys almost daily who take jobs
right out of law school with giant law ﬁrms with
the intention of giving up and going in-house,
● to smaller law ﬁrms,
● or taking some other sort of job with the
government,
● or a public interest organization as soon as
they can.

Introduction
Most mid-level to senior associates in major law
ﬁrms are interested in giving up and taking jobs
that are in different practice settings besides law
ﬁrms.
● I would estimate that over 80% of women and
over 60% of men that are attorneys want to
work in different practice settings.

Introduction
Not too long ago, I had an in-house position for
someone to head litigation at a small company in
Louisiana for $200,000 a year.
● I had partners of major law ﬁrms in New York
and other major cities competing for the job –
despite the fact that in a few cases it would have
involved a $2-million haircut.

Introduction
Obviously, not everyone gives up, because giant
law ﬁrms keep chugging along, but the majority of
attorneys do give up quite early (or late) in their
careers when there is really no reason for them to
do so.
● Doing so is likely to permanently stunt their
development as an attorney, future income,
prospects and more.

Introduction
At the outset and in the spirit of full disclosure, I
run businesses that help people get jobs in-house,
jobs with the government, small ﬁrms and even
solo practitioners, for example.
● As a recruiter, I also often place attorneys at law
ﬁrms less prestigious than where they are
coming from.

Introduction
I am not so idealistic to pretend that all attorneys
should not take in-house jobs, move to less
prestigious law ﬁrms, or go to work for the
government—attorneys should take the positions
that are the best for them.
● Regardless, none of this changes my overriding
conviction that you should go to the best law
ﬁrm you can—if you are up for it—and avoid
almost all in-house, government, public interest
jobs and so forth as long as you can.
● Taking these jobs is more often than not “giving
up” and dropping out.

Don’t be a dropout!
● When you were in high school people
dropped out.
● When you were in college people dropped
out.
● When you were in law school people dropped
out.
● Many law students drop out and never take
positions with law ﬁrms to begin with.
● Many attorneys you worked with dropped out
of law ﬁrms within months, or a few years, of
joining them.

Attorneys are psyched out by others.
● They get psyched out by their minds, get
unfocused and veer off in the wrong direction
and never reach their full potential in the law.
● This does not need to happen for most
attorneys.
● What you need to understand is that you should
do the best you can to stay employed as high as
you can in the legal profession if you want to be
the best you can be.

Do not surround yourself with people interested in
dropping out.
● Dropping out is insane.
● Once you drop out of a law ﬁrm you can almost
never go back.
● If you drop out of a law ﬁrm you are making a
decision with long-range consequences that will
limit you the rest of your career—just like it does
for people who drop out of high school, college
and law school.

You should do your best to
● (1) get a position with the most prestigious law
ﬁrm you can and
● (2) stay employed with the best law ﬁrm you can
as long as you can.
● Do not drop out!

You Want to Continue
Working Inside a Law Firm,
Because If You Do So You
Will Surround Yourself with
the Most Successful and
Sophisticated People
Possible and Will Rise to
Their Level

You Want to Continue Working Inside a Law Firm,
Because If You Do So You Will Surround Yourself with
the Most Successful and Sophisticated People Possible
and Will Rise to Their Level
I used to work in college admissions for an elite
college.
● When you see kids applying to college many of
them look remarkable.
● Whether it is morning, noon or night they will do
everything they can to stand out and look as
successful as possible.

They get the best grades they can, do all sorts of
extracurricular activities and look in every sense
like people who will succeed once they get out in
the world.
● The very best colleges want not just people with
good grades and test scores, but those who are
active outside of class, are leaders and look like
they will succeed in the world.

These are kids who have not given up and are
“shining” and looking like future success is within
their grasp.
● (This, by the way, is exactly how you looked when
and if you got a job with a prestigious law ﬁrm.)

Along the way, many of their peers gave up on the
way to great colleges.
● At some point they stopped trying and gave up.
Many became burnouts.
● Some skipped school. Others got discouraged
and stopped trying.
● Some got interested in romantic relationships
and made this their priority.

If an attorney went to a top prep school (Exeter,
Andover, Collegiate, St. Paul’s, for example) they
also went through the same process when they
were younger to look as good on paper as
possible.
● Top prep schools have so many applicants that
they look for not just the smartest people, but
those with other characteristics that make it
look like the young person will be successful.

Because they are so proud of attending and
getting into these schools, most people list them
on their resumes the rest of their lives—
● something you never see from people who
attended more provincial private schools or
public schools.

The qualities that the best colleges and prep
schools are seeking are similar to what it takes to
succeed in a major law ﬁrm:
● You need to be smart, extremely hard working
(harder than your peers), get out there and be
seen (to attract business) and be a leader.

The way you looked on paper when you were 13
years old and got into some rariﬁed and
competitive prep school needs to be how you look
compared to your peers now.
● The way you looked when you were 18 years old
and got into Princeton, Yale, or some other
incredible school needs to be how you look now
compared to your peers.
● The way you looked when you got into a great
law school needs to be how you look now
compared to your peers.

● The way you looked when you got into a great
law ﬁrm in law school needs to be how you
look now compared to your peers.
● The way you looked when you lateraled into a
great law ﬁrm even better than where you are
now needs to be how you look now compared
to your peers.

The students who work the hardest, get the best
test scores and distinguish themselves the most
are the ones who get into the best law schools.
● The very best law schools also favor the
attorneys who are coming out of the best
colleges.
● This is because they know that a historical
pattern of achievement is likely to follow you to
law school.

The very best law schools are screening not just
for the smartest people, but for those that show
the same sorts of characteristics that someone
needs to succeed in a major law ﬁrm:

Commitment (you need to work very hard, for an
extended period of time to get good grades to
catch the attention of a top law school).
● High intelligence (if you get in the 97%+ on the
LSATs you are smarter than most people taking
the test).
● Outside interests and accomplishment (provided
you do not have the best numbers, you can only
distinguish yourself for top law schools with
this).

Most (but not all) attorneys work extremely hard
and are able to get into the very best colleges and
the very best law schools and do the best they
possibly can in these environments.
● Many even try and go to the very best prep
schools they can go to.
● Why do you think that people work so hard to
get into the best colleges and law schools they
possibly can?
● Is it because they have some sort of “magical”
approach to teaching, or the curriculum that is
only found at these well-regarded schools?

More often than not people lead each other like
lemmings.
● They believe that they are trying to attend the
very best schools because of things like the
quality of the teachers, or the ranking of the law
school.
● This has very little to do with it, and the reasons
for this are generally not talked about:

People are trying to get into the very best schools
because of who their peers will be.
● The better quality of school you attend the more
likely it is that your peers will be smart,
motivated and outstanding.
● The presumption is that if you spend your high
school, college and law school around people
like this you will become like them.

There is truth in this.
● If your peers are all very competitive with each
other and trying to get the best grades, excel in
extracurricular activities, and have all sorts of
outside interests, you are likely to be like this as
well.
● People tend to become like those they associate
with and spend time with.
● The best schools do their very best to put
high-achieving people around each other so
they will rub off on one another.

I attended a boarding school and stopped going to
reunions over a decade ago.
● With few exceptions, almost everyone was
interested in comparing “success notes” about
what the other was doing and how successful
others were.
● One person had become a famous movie star
and everyone gathered around her, several
people were doctors, lawyers and ultra-rich
“ﬂash traders” or hedge fund managers.

Everyone was comparing notes about how the
other was doing.
● These sorts of things made me feel like I needed
to work harder and be more than I currently
was—as I am sure they did for others.

This follows me to this day on LinkedIn, via email
and when my phone rings from someone I
attended high school with telling me about an
update of someone who has just been named
CEO of a big Silicon Valley company, or other
times sharing someone’s failure.
● Success and failure follow people that attend
schools like this.

When you are surrounded by high-achieving
people and constantly hear from them, you too
are motivated to work harder.
● As far as I can tell, the main beneﬁt of having
attended to a top school is not what you learn,
but who your peers are and the standards they
set for each other as a group.

Law firms are a complex pecking order of their
own.
● The quality of your law firm will determine the
quality of your peers and their standards.
● The very best law firms are selling the quality of
their reputations and the quality of their
attorneys.

● The very best law ﬁrms hire and bring people
into their fold with the same level of intensity
that law schools, colleges and elite prep schools
do.
● The better the law ﬁrm, the better the screening
process and the sorts of people that end up
there.

There is a difference between a firm like Wachtel
Lipton, Cravath and Sullivan & Cromwell from the
majority of AmLaw 100 law firms, for example.
● Their screening processes are far different and
they are very careful about whom they let in.
● The very best law firms do not even hire laterals
from other law firms because they do not want
thinking processes, expectations, ways of
approaching work and so forth to “infect” their
flock of attorneys.

Law firms have the same pecking orders of
prestige as law schools, colleges and prep schools
do.
● This pecking order is based on the quality of the
people that they let in and the screening
processes.
● One club is more prestigious than the other.
● The quality of people you are surrounded by at
one law firm will be far different and likely to rub
off on you more at one firm than another.

Sullivan & Cromwell is profoundly more
prestigious than Goodwin Procter or Morgan
Lewis, for example, not because there are
significant differences in the work that each does,
but because of the quality of the people that each
law firm attracts and hires (they also have much
higher profits per partner).

While not always the case, most people that are
employed at Morgan Lewis could never get a job
at Sullivan & Cromwell.
● Conversely, most people employed at Sullivan
& Cromwell could have gotten positions at
Morgan Lewis.

You are going to be surrounded by smarter, more
motivated attorneys with characteristics that are
overall much better at a ﬁrm like Sullivan &
Cromwell than you would be at a ﬁrm such as
Morgan Lewis or Goodwin Procter.

Because you are surrounded by better people at a
Sullivan & Cromwell, better things are likely to
happen with your career over the long term.
● You will not only become a better attorney
surrounded by better people, but you will also
make decisions with your career that mirror
those of your peers.
● You will think through decisions more carefully,
consult with your peers and watch what they are
doing.

Your peers will more likely make better decisions
with how they take next steps with their careers.
● Since you are watching what they are doing,
speaking with them and going through the
process with them as well, you too will become
more successful.

When you are interviewing and speaking with law
ﬁrms and when you are replacing someone, you
should always ask what has happened to the
person that came before you.
● If something bad happened this should frighten
you.
● You should look at where the alumni of the law
ﬁrm have gone and what they are doing.
● Are they well-known in law, business and
elsewhere, or do they have a history of dropping
out of the law and failing?

The quality of your peers is something that is
hugely important and will rub off on you.
● If you are around people that cut corners, think
negatively, are not committed and do not look
destined for success, this will rub off on you.
● There are plenty of very smart people who go to
bad inner city schools and never amount to
anything whatsoever—and even end up in prison,
drug addicts, or never go to college—because of
their surroundings and the quality of their peers.

In the same way, the quality of your peers as an
attorney will affect the sort of person you
become.
● Even though most people at Sullivan & Cromwell
never become partners, the vast majority of
them end up being far more successful in the
long run than people who go to Goodwin Procter
because they are surrounded by better peers.
● The people running the ﬁrm are better as well.

I see the same pattern over and over again:
● An attorney goes to an elite East Coast prep
school, to an Ivy League college and top law
school and then comes out of all of this without
a decent law firm job—or if they get a law firm
job they work there for no more than a year or
two.
● They do not understand the importance of the
most prestigious and best law firms in their
evolution. You will become like the people you
surround yourself with.

The better quality of person you work with the
better attorney you will become.
● Your thinking processes about life, your career
and more will begin to mirror theirs as well.
● You will pick up on your surroundings and learn
the ambitions, thought processes and more of
the most successful people that will have you.

When an attorney goes in-house, takes a
government job, opens a solo practice, or works in
a ﬁrm that is beneath their abilities, they are
consciously making the decision to surround
themselves with people that are likely to not be as
motivated and have the sorts of qualities that will
help them progress on the path to long-term
success.

Law firm attorneys are motivated and work to
project the best images for themselves that they
can because they have to.
● They are trying to work for the largest clients
possible, charging high hourly rates and need to
justify all this with the highest possible quality.
● In addition, the very largest law firms have all
sorts of controls and pressure:
● they want the best work, the most hours, the
most business, the best public profile for each
attorney and more.

The best law ﬁrms are a continuation of the
process that most attorneys have been following
their entire academic lives:
● You want to look as good as possible in all areas
to advance to the next stage.

The ball is always moving higher and higher for
attorneys in law firms.
● Law firms represent this, and the level of
competitiveness is higher and higher depending
on the quality of law firm you are at.
● When your expectations are very high then you
tend to try harder and expect more from
yourself.
● When you expect more from yourself you end up
becoming a better attorney.

The reason that attorneys should do their best to
work for the best law firm they can and stay there
as long as they can is because they will become
better attorneys the longer they stay and the
better law firm they work at.
● At every level of how an attorney is measured
and compared to others, nothing makes an
attorney better at what they do than a law firm.

If an attorney is in their 20s they may have 50+
years of practice left in them.
● If an attorney is in their 30s they may have 40+
years. If an attorney is in their 40s they may have
30+ years.
● Doesn’t it make sense to surround yourself with
the very best people you can, learn to think and
operate like them, raise the bar and have the
highest standards possible as long as you can?

It makes no sense to play the game by going to a
good college, law school and getting the best ﬁrm
job you can if you are not interested in continuing
to play the game.
● In most instances, attorneys prepare for the
game for over a decade and then often drop out
a few years into the game instead of toughing it
out.
● Even partners drop out too early in the game
many times.

You will be successful and learn to be successful
to the extent you surround yourself with the most
successful people you can.
● As an almost universal observation, attorneys in
the best law ﬁrms tend to be more motivated,
success conscious and do better work than their
counterparts in other practice settings.

Law ﬁrm attorneys work for paying clients, are
surrounded by other attorneys with high
expectations for them and need to keep their
standards up at all times.
● Escaping an environment that does not have
high standards for you will just result in you not
reaching your full potential as an attorney.

You Generally Get One
Shot with Prestigious Law
Firms: If You Leave or Do
Not Join One as Soon as
You Can You Will Never
Have a Chance

You Generally Get One Shot with Prestigious
Law Firms: If You Leave or Do Not Join One as
Soon as You Can You Will Never Have a Chance
Law firms want nothing to do with attorneys that
do not know what they want to do with their
careers, are not committed to working in a law
firm and do not want to commit to the sort of
quality, struggle for upward mobility and playing
the law firm game that is required to be part of a
law firm.

That is like applying to Harvard for college and
telling an interviewer that you are “not sure” you
are interested in completing college, or that you
“might want” to drop out of college half way
through and go to school to learn how to be a
professional acrobat.
● You are either committed to playing the game or
you are not.
● If you are committed to playing the game it will
show in everything you do.
● Actions speak louder than words.

Attorneys that do not work as summer associates,
take jobs out of law school not practicing law, go
in-house after a few years with a law firm, or leave
demanding law firms to go to work in law firms
that are not nearly as demanding are not playing
the game.
● Law firms know this and they want nothing to do
with it.
● The attorney does not have the motivations or
skills to compete at the level the law firm
expects.

Here is an important point to understand:
● Playing the law firm game and staying employed
in a major law firm is no different than getting
into the best school you can when you are
younger.
● The struggle to get ahead and go to the best
prep school, college and law school is simply
“training” and a “warm up” for getting into the
best law firm (and staying there later).

The sort of behavior that future attorneys
demonstrate to get into a top college, or law
school, is no different than the sort of behavior
you need to show to get a position with and stay
employed with a major law ﬁrm.
● The reason your college grades matter to law
schools is because they show that you have
been able to buckle down, study hard, impress
others and commit to something for an
extended period of time.

Getting and staying employed with the best law
firm is like getting into the best law school you
can, getting the best grades there and looking the
best you can.
● It is the same game most attorneys have been
playing for a long time.
● Let’s get something clear:
● The most prestigious law firms pay the most and
consistently have the highest profits per partner.
● Most attorneys compare each other and rank
law firms based on this information.

This is just how it works (and has worked) as long
as there have been large law firms.
● Cravath, Sullivan & Cromwell and Wachtel have
always held a special place in the prestige
category because they have consistently paid
the most to their associates, been the most
difficult to get jobs with and paid the highest
profits per partner.
● They have been doing this for several decades.

The best law firms are under tremendous
pressure to make a lot of money to (1) pay high
associate salaries (to attract the best associates)
and (2) show high profits per partner.
● This creates the sort of pressure cooker that is
the typical prestigious American law firm that
attracts the best people possible and expels and
repels others like a virus.
● Lawyers rank and compare each other based on
the quality of the law firm they are with.
● The highest quality law firm is widely considered
the one that pays its partners and associates the
most.

When you get right down to it, the profits per
partner a law firm pays is no different in many
respects than college and law school rankings.
● The best law school, Yale, has the highest
average LSAT scores and undergraduate grade
point averages.
● The best colleges typically have the highest SAT
scores and grade point averages. People rank
and compare each other based on numbers.
● The best law firms use numbers (profits per
partner) to score each other as well.

While there are exceptions, the best lawyers are in
law firms.
● For the most part, the better the law firm the
better the lawyer.
● Law firms work for paying clients that have
expectations.
● The larger the law firm, the larger the client and
the higher the expectations the client will have
for their law firm.
● Inside of a law firm, lawyers work for other
lawyers that have the same sorts of
expectations for the lawyers working for them
(on behalf of their clients).

Many attorneys do not realize that once they
“move down” to a less prestigious law ﬁrm, or
move to another practice setting (in-house or the
government) that they are often closing the door
to working in a prestigious law ﬁrm ever again.
● They have walked away from the game they
have been playing since they were
young—without understanding that the game
was still going on.

Additionally, the law student that does not work as
a summer associate in a law firm—or get their first
job with a law firm (with the exception of a federal
or state supreme court clerkship) may never get a
position with a top law firm.

I speak with attorneys all the time that are under
the profound misconception that after a few years
doing public interest work, state government
work, or working in another practice setting
besides a law firm that they can just skip on over
to a top law firm.
● It does not work that way, no matter where you
went to law school.
● You need to get on the law firm bus immediately
after law school.
● You need to stay on this bus if you want a career
in a law firm.

It is exceedingly rare for in-house attorneys to
ever get positions with a prestigious law firm after
going in-house, for example.
● It is also quite difficult for government attorneys
to go back to law firms – unless they are
high-level government officials.
● Once you join a law firm you should do your best
to stay there, or move up if possible.

In a Major Law Firm You
Are Getting Access to
Waterfalls of Money

In a Major Law Firm You Are Getting
Access to Waterfalls of Money
One of the main reasons that it is so important
that attorneys position themselves in the best law
ﬁrms they can is because the better the law ﬁrm,
the more money there is coming into it.

The very best law ﬁrms have huge clients that
trust their attorneys implicitly and feel proud to be
represented by these attorneys.
● These law ﬁrms pay high salaries to their
associates, partners and staff because they
have giant clients that are willing to write checks
for their services continuously.

They may be tapped into the cash ﬂow that a giant
company like General Motors, Intel, Samsung, or
Boeing generates, for example, and have money
to hand out to their attorneys and hire more
attorneys.
● This sort of cash ﬂow is what enables you to be
trained, work with the best attorneys and have
opportunities.

While you can tap into lots of money if you teach
at a law school with a huge endowment, or work
for various in-house companies, or many smaller
law firms, it is not the same.
● Smaller law firms typically do not have the sorts
of clients that are ready, willing, or able to write
endless checks.
● Large clients mean more money and more
opportunity.
● They also mean that you will have the ability to
do sophisticated work, work on major matters
and have more opportunity if you work in a
larger and more prestigious law firm.

A Larger Law Firm Will
Allow You to Develop Skills
That Are Focused and
More Marketable

A Larger Law Firm Will Allow You to
Develop Skills That Are Focused and
More Marketable
Most attorneys in smaller law firms are not that
marketable because they have not developed
specialized skills.
● Because larger law firms charge higher billing
rates, their attorneys are expected to be more
specialized in their practice area.
● Smaller law firms, companies and other practice
settings typically do not have the volume of
work to have attorneys that are as specialized.
● If you have highly developed and focused skills
in your practice area, you are far more likely to
be marketable than if you do not.

More Marketable
It is very difficult to be marketable if you are a
general commercial litigator—as opposed to a
construction litigator or tax litigator, for example.
● It is very difficult to be marketable as a patent
attorney unless you have a specialty—such as
analogue circuits or drugs, for example.
● It is extremely difficult to be marketable as a
corporate attorney unless you have a
well-defined specialty—capital markets or
mergers and acquisitions, for example.

More Marketable
No matter how you slice it, the specialist is more
marketable than the generalist.
● You will have a much more difﬁcult time getting
any sort of position if you are a generalist as
opposed to a specialist.

The Model of a Law Firm Is
Made to Push You Towards
Independence: All Law
Firms Are Pushing You to
Grow Up

The Model of a Law Firm Is Made to Push
You Towards Independence: All Law Firms
Are Pushing You to Grow Up
All law firms are pushing the people who work in
them to become independent—or they can lose
their jobs.
● This is positive.
● This is no different than a school pushing you to
get good grades, or you will not get a job, or get
into a top law school.
● No matter how you slice it, all law firms are
pushing their attorneys to get business and
support the firm.
● They are pushing you to grow up.

When an attorney has business they become
independent.
● The firm provides them support and a
percentage of the business the attorney brings
in.
● If the partner does not like their support, or their
compensation, they can leave.
● The partners I work with that have a lot of
business generally get interviews with the
majority of firms they want to (provided that
there are no client conflicts).
● A partner with business controls their own
destiny and life.

How does a partner get business?
● There are a lot of answers to this question, but a
lot of people that you competed with in high
school, college and law school probably at one
point asked some of the following questions
about you:

● “How did she manage to graduate with a 3.8
GPA?”
● “How did he get a 170 on his LSAT?”
● “How did she manage to get off the waitlist at
Columbia Law School?”

● “How did he get a job at an AmLaw 100 law
firm when he went to a third tier law school
and was not even a stellar student?”
● “How did she get a job at a top law firm in New
York City when she was only in the top half of
her class?”
● “How did he make partner at our firm without
any business and not having the highest
hours?”

The answer is:
● If you want something enough you ﬁgure out
how to do it. It is as simple as that.

If you go in-house or to the government, you
become dependent on others and lose control
over your career and life.
● You no longer have the ability to choose where
you work and control your destiny.
● Your destiny is controlled by the economy and
others.
● Partners with giant books of business can do
whatever they want with their careers and are in
control.
● This is what you should aspire to and what can
change your career and life.

This is the entire point of jumping through so
many hoops to get into a big law firm in the first
place:
● You want to get to a place where you are strong
and in control.
● The bigger the firm you remain at, the more
likely it is that you are going to be able to bring in
large clients and be in control of your career.

Conclusions
Most attorneys would be better served if they
worked for
● (1) the best law ﬁrms they possibly can
● (2) as long as they can.

Conclusions
Your first choice for an employer should always be
a top law firm—the “top firm” is the best law firm
you can get a job with.
● If you are at a world-class law firm you should do
your best to stay there, or move to an even
better one—you should generally stay until they
tell you that you better start looking (unless you
find a better opportunity in the interim).

Conclusions
● If you are at a good law firm, you should consider
moving to a better one if you can (the better the
firm you are at the more opportunities you will
have in the future).
● If you need to move down in terms of the
prestige level of the law firm you are at, you
should only do so when absolutely necessary
and when your law firm job has completely run
its course.

Conclusions
You should avoid in-house jobs, most boutiques,
government jobs, public interest jobs and other
jobs as long as possible—and only take them
when your career can advance no further in a law
ﬁrm.

Conclusions
This is not what most attorneys want to hear, of
course, but there are significant reasons for me
giving you this advice.
● I have had it with people in authority—whomever
they may be (your friends, peers, career
counselors and others)—telling you the contrary.
● Your best career is almost always with a law firm
and the best law firm you can get a position with.

Conclusions
If you are getting different advice then you should
be suspect.
● This is the fact:
○ Not working at the best law ﬁrm you can is
more often than not a career mistake and,
among other things:

Conclusions
● You will stop improving as an attorney to your
full potential.
● You will more-often-than-not hurt your career
prospects.
● You will limit the lateral moves you can make in
the future.
● You will limit the income you can make in the
future.

Conclusions
In fact, when I am working with attorneys I do
whatever it takes to find the best law firm I can for
them, even it means trying to get them a position
in the deserts of Qatar, or the oil sands of North
Dakota.
● Regardless of whom you are, you should do
whatever it takes to save your legal career and
find the best law firm job possible.
● In most cases, this should take priority in your
career and life.

Conclusions
The important point is that you should not drop
out.
● If you drop out you will miss all that you have
worked so hard to achieve and leave it all behind.

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