{"id":140428,"date":"2025-12-30T20:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/30\/how-i-made-practice-group-chair-start-by-leading-from-where-you-are-says-betty-yang-of-gibson-dunn\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T20:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-practice-group-chair-start-by-leading-from-where-you-are-says-betty-yang-of-gibson-dunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/30\/how-i-made-practice-group-chair-start-by-leading-from-where-you-are-says-betty-yang-of-gibson-dunn\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Practice Group Chair: ‘Start by Leading From Where You Are,’ Says Betty Yang of Gibson Dunn"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Start by leading from where you are. Take ownership, mentor others, and think beyond your own docket. Leadership is about mindset\u2014being proactive, collaborative, and committed to the success of the team as a whole. And there’s no better way to position yourself for a leadership position you want than demonstrating those qualities in the positions that you already occupy.”<\/p>\n

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“Start by leading from where you are. Take ownership, mentor others, and think beyond your own docket. Leadership is about mindset\u2014being proactive, collaborative, and committed to the success of the team as a whole. And there’s no better way to position yourself for a leadership position you want than demonstrating those qualities in the positions that you already occupy.”<\/p>\n

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“Start by leading from where you are. Take ownership, mentor others, and think beyond your own docket. Leadership is about mindset\u2014being proactive, collaborative, and committed to the success of the team as a whole. And there’s no better way to position yourself for a leadership position you want than demonstrating those qualities in the positions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140429,"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-140428","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\/12\/legal-news-6IhRRp.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140428","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=140428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}