{"id":135778,"date":"2025-10-24T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/24\/how-i-made-office-managing-partner-be-prepared-to-invest-in-the-nonbillable-aspects-says-kimberly-seten-of-constangy-brooks-smith-prophete\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-office-managing-partner-be-prepared-to-invest-in-the-nonbillable-aspects-says-kimberly-seten-of-constangy-brooks-smith-prophete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/24\/how-i-made-office-managing-partner-be-prepared-to-invest-in-the-nonbillable-aspects-says-kimberly-seten-of-constangy-brooks-smith-prophete\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Office Managing Partner: ‘Be Prepared to Invest in the Nonbillable Aspects,’ Says Kimberly Seten of Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Make yourself known as someone who is responsive, dependable, and easy to collaborate with across offices and practice areas. Also, be prepared to invest in the nonbillable aspects of the job. Whether it’s mentoring junior attorneys, assisting with business development, or contributing to firm initiatives\u2014these efforts demonstrate that you’re committed to the long-term health of the firm, not just your own matters.”<\/p>\n

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“Make yourself known as someone who is responsive, dependable, and easy to collaborate with across offices and practice areas. Also, be prepared to invest in the nonbillable aspects of the job. Whether it’s mentoring junior attorneys, assisting with business development, or contributing to firm initiatives\u2014these efforts demonstrate that you’re committed to the long-term health of the firm, not just your own matters.”<\/p>\n

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“Make yourself known as someone who is responsive, dependable, and easy to collaborate with across offices and practice areas. Also, be prepared to invest in the nonbillable aspects of the job. Whether it’s mentoring junior attorneys, assisting with business development, or contributing to firm initiatives\u2014these efforts demonstrate that you’re committed to the long-term health of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135779,"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-135778","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\/10\/legal-news-REvSMT.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135778","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=135778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}