What does this phrase mean? "I guess in the really big cases, he gets to his feet"?

Question

There is this really lousy lawyer who dragged his feet all throughout some job we gave him, and one of his colleagues wrote this phrase about him, but since I am not really good with english idioms, I wanted to ask what he meant to say about this bad lawyer.

Answer 1

To me it means, court cases he finds worth a challenge, he will get up and go all out and win for you. But something mediocre, beneath him, not much of a challenge or not important to him, he will drag his foot on, it's not a priority for him to get right on it.