The more financially and professionally successful mid-sized law firms are proficient in performing virtually all
of the usual legal services in most
of the substantive practice areas required by their key clients, however, they do not have the lawyer complement required to be expert in all practice areas, nor will the sophisticated buyers
of legal services believe that mid-sized law firms are able to provide the
same breadth and depth
of high quality legal
expertise as large general practice firms several times their size.