Unless you end up in court winning a prolific case for your client and only having ended up in such a place on the back of an apprenticeship. Brilliance is bril

Unless you end up in court winning a prolific case for your client and only having ended up in such a place on the back of an apprenticeship. Brilliance is brilliance after all. So even if you're from a statistically weaker candidate pool, there are ways into large firms. It's entirely possible to make a name for yourself without being from a large firm. All you have to do is be good. Show up in court. Win cases. (Assuming of course you already passed the bar) You don't have to go through school to be brilliant, you just won't be able to easily follow the same path as law school grads.