Is Swapping Biglaw for a Boutique Firm Worth It for Midwest Market Experience?

Description

• Harrison advises that leaving a big law firm is not for market experience but for career improvement.
• To improve your career, Harrison suggests moving to a bigger or smaller firm or to a firm with more like-minded people.
• It's important to move to a firm that will move you upwards instead of sideways.

Transcript

Transcript:

No, it's not. You don't leave a big law firm unless you don't want to ever go back to a big law firm just to get a market experience. No. And no, you only leave firms if you need to improve your career.

How do you improve your career? You move to a bigger firm, if you're in a smaller firm. You move to a smaller firm, where you can develop clients. You move to a firm where there's more people like you and you're gonna be happier. You move to a firm that's going to move you upwards as opposed to not sideways.