Originally Posted by Unregistered

No worries! Glad to help. Yes if you want to open your own firms eventually, then of course staying in tier 1/2 practices will help cos you do everything already. Bread and butter work.
Needed for start up law firms.

If you are in tier 5, and you want to set up your own firm in 4-5 years, chances are you will flop cos the skills sets don’t allow for that.

In firms like CC and Baker it’s about survival of the fittest, eliminate competition and rise the ranks. Most people when they leave these firms through elimination, they don’t usually go to small firms or big four. They either go in house or leave the profession to do other things. That’s the brutality of big firms, after a while if you don’t make it, you aren’t very mobile within the local firms scene.