In the piece, attorney Adam Leitman Bailey says that, as a smaller law firm, his establishment can only attract Fortune 500 clients by maintaining the reputation that the firm goes the extra mile; the associates who work there can’t just undergo an expensive discovery process only to settle after all is said and done.
Those associates have to produce real results, Leitman argues, because they have to compete for jobs and high rankings in class, associates from lower-tier schools have the moxie to accomplish that.