For a long time, the track to success for lawyers was to get into a BigLaw firm and make one’s way to partnership. Fortunately, attitudes about this have changed recently.
Still, it would go too far to say that lots of lawyers are falling over themselves to work in smaller firms because of perceived drop in prestige. But dogged refusal to work in a smaller firm forecloses a lot of real value to the practicing attorney. There are a lot of benefits to working in a small firm. Here are just a few.
