Warren Knull says his first three weeks as a new corporate and securities associate with Andrews Kurth were “business boot camp” training. Knull and the firm’s other baby lawyers went through a course the firm purchased called The Fullbridge Program, during which the associates formed teams to solve a case study.

“We were tasked with deciding whether or not to build from scratch an air taxi business or acquire one of the major players already in the market,” says Knull, a 2013 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. “Then, we had to analyze it from both a financial/business perspective and the legal issues that come along with acquiring a company like that.”