{"id":137487,"date":"2025-11-23T20:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/23\/how-i-made-partner-become-an-integral-part-of-the-firm-as-a-whole-says-tad-bashore-of-ballard-spahr\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-partner-become-an-integral-part-of-the-firm-as-a-whole-says-tad-bashore-of-ballard-spahr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/23\/how-i-made-partner-become-an-integral-part-of-the-firm-as-a-whole-says-tad-bashore-of-ballard-spahr\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Partner: ‘Become an Integral Part of the Firm as a Whole,’ Says Tad Bashore of Ballard Spahr"},"content":{"rendered":"

“As an associate’s career develops, it means becoming an integral part of the firm as a whole by showing the ability for leadership inside and outside of the firm, being a go-to person with respect to your area of practice, building relationships with clients and understanding their business and how to provide value to them. Substantive expertise in one or more areas of the law is a given.”<\/p>\n

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“As an associate’s career develops, it means becoming an integral part of the firm as a whole by showing the ability for leadership inside and outside of the firm, being a go-to person with respect to your area of practice, building relationships with clients and understanding their business and how to provide value to them. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137487","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=137487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}