{"id":116819,"date":"2025-04-28T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/28\/how-i-made-office-managing-partner-institutional-goodwill-you-build-will-be-remembered-says-thomas-chou-of-morrison-foerster\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-office-managing-partner-institutional-goodwill-you-build-will-be-remembered-says-thomas-chou-of-morrison-foerster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/28\/how-i-made-office-managing-partner-institutional-goodwill-you-build-will-be-remembered-says-thomas-chou-of-morrison-foerster\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Office Managing Partner: ‘Institutional Goodwill You Build Will Be Remembered,’ Says Thomas Chou of Morrison Foerster"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I’ve met many lawyers who are highly successful in building their book of business but had blinders on when it came to what the colleagues around them were doing. Such rainmakers are often in high demand (with corresponding compensation) but this does not always translate into becoming a strong leader. The institutional goodwill you build by being the best firm citizen you can be will be remembered when that time comes for you to be called upon to lead.”<\/p>\n

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“I’ve met many lawyers who are highly successful in building their book of business but had blinders on when it came to what the colleagues around them were doing. Such rainmakers are often in high demand (with corresponding compensation) but this does not always translate into becoming a strong leader. The institutional goodwill you build by being the best firm citizen you can be will be remembered when that time comes for you to be called upon to lead.”<\/p>\n

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“I’ve met many lawyers who are highly successful in building their book of business but had blinders on when it came to what the colleagues around them were doing. Such rainmakers are often in high demand (with corresponding compensation) but this does not always translate into becoming a strong leader. The institutional goodwill you build […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/legal-news-KEyGJ8.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}