Know Why Coming From a Mediocre Law School Does Not Keep You From Working in Big Law Firms

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Know Why Coming From a Mediocre Law School Does Not Keep You From Working in Big Law Firms
[00:00:00] As a lawyer who graduated from a mediocre law school, can you end up in a good law firm?
Absolutely. Lots of attorneys go to mediocre law schools and didn't even do well, ended up in top law firms. Sometimes it takes awhile for a legal career to take off. What typically ends up happening is if you do very good work and you're able to work on behalf of clients, when you're able to make clients like you, then you can certainly can get into a big law firm just by as a partner as you get more and more business and probably lateral to bigger and bigger firms. Another way you can get into a better law firm, you can specialize in what's in demand. At different points in time, different practice areas are very in demand. If you're doing that practice area and specializing, you can move into a better law firm. One of the things that I would recommend for all attorneys is to do what you can to always specialize in areas in any type of work as long as it's not consumer facing and end up in a big kind of firm.
The mistake that a lot of people make is they they will try to go [00:01:00] into a practice area where they're doing a lot of different things.
 You need to specialize to ended up in a good law firm and then get better and known in your practice area.