Beware of stock standard advice
When I started out my practice in my father’s firm a great many counseled me to consider not working for my father but to try out other firms. Lawyers of both senior and junior stripes, acquaintances, friends and strangers, would assail me with the same advice: Since your father’s firm is a small one doing general work, you should try out the medium-sized and big ones for a few years. The experience is different, if …