{"id":131930,"date":"2025-08-25T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=131930"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-office-managing-partner-make-time-to-stay-interesting-says-krishnan-padmanabhan-of-winston-strawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/25\/how-i-made-office-managing-partner-make-time-to-stay-interesting-says-krishnan-padmanabhan-of-winston-strawn\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Office Managing Partner: ‘Make Time to Stay Interesting,’ Says Krishnan Padmanabhan of Winston & Strawn"},"content":{"rendered":"

“If I could give my younger self advice, I’d say: make time to stay interesting. It’s easy to let the demands of the profession take over, but the hobbies and passions that make you who you are\u2014those matter. It’s not just about work-life balance, it’s about authenticity. Authenticity is one of the most powerful traits a lawyer and a leader can have. Clients and colleagues can tell when you’re genuine and you’re able to connect more deeply.”<\/p>\n

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“If I could give my younger self advice, I’d say: make time to stay interesting. It’s easy to let the demands of the profession take over, but the hobbies and passions that make you who you are\u2014those matter. It’s not just about work-life balance, it’s about authenticity. Authenticity is one of the most powerful traits a lawyer and a leader can have. Clients and colleagues can tell when you’re genuine and you’re able to connect more deeply.”<\/p>\n

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“If I could give my younger self advice, I’d say: make time to stay interesting. It’s easy to let the demands of the profession take over, but the hobbies and passions that make you who you are\u2014those matter. It’s not just about work-life balance, it’s about authenticity. Authenticity is one of the most powerful traits […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131931,"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-131930","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\/08\/legal-news-wX7e4e.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131930","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=131930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131940,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131930\/revisions\/131940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}