{"id":133239,"date":"2025-09-15T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/15\/how-i-made-partner-lean-into-the-hard-work-says-stephen-kudla-of-marshall-gerstein\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-partner-lean-into-the-hard-work-says-stephen-kudla-of-marshall-gerstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/15\/how-i-made-partner-lean-into-the-hard-work-says-stephen-kudla-of-marshall-gerstein\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Partner: ‘Lean Into the Hard Work,’ Says Stephen Kudla of Marshall Gerstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Lean into the hard work, especially the assignments that are technically demanding or outside your comfort zone. In my view, what sets people apart is their willingness to tackle difficult matters and persevere through the learning curve. That’s how you build trust and demonstrate leadership potential.”<\/p>\n

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“Lean into the hard work, especially the assignments that are technically demanding or outside your comfort zone. In my view, what sets people apart is their willingness to tackle difficult matters and persevere through the learning curve. That’s how you build trust and demonstrate leadership potential.”<\/p>\n

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“Lean into the hard work, especially the assignments that are technically demanding or outside your comfort zone. In my view, what sets people apart is their willingness to tackle difficult matters and persevere through the learning curve. That’s how you build trust and demonstrate leadership potential.” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Lean into the hard work, especially the assignments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133240,"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-133239","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\/09\/legal-news-NmwCdt.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133239","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=133239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}