Quote: [quoteVery few clients are concerned with what law school, let alone what undergrad college their attorney attended. They are focused on what you can do for them and how much it costs.
How naive. Saying clients don't care about credentials is like saying porn producers don't care what a girls tits look like. The going rate for a top law school grad is $200,000.00. Thats because when the case is lost, the CEO who hired the firm may lose his cushy job and wants to be able to go back to the board of directors and say "but I hired the best".
They can hire someone with less pedigree, who will get the job done equally well, but they won't have the pedigree. You can drive a Hugo and it should get the job done, but when you pass that German dealershhip you are strangely drawn. When you speak of lawyers, I assume you mean civil litigation. Most legal fights are not about law at all, they are about ego. When one side gets a lawyer from Georgetown, the other side wants something even better.
When clients enter litigation they go in it to win. Clients will spend ungodly amounts of money to defend cases and what they are spending it on is credentials. Law is the most pedigree obsessed profession next to medicine. Clients care deeply about credentials, and if they don't its cause they can't afford it.
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