{"id":141319,"date":"2026-01-08T20:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/08\/how-i-made-office-managing-partner-mutual-respect-is-essential-says-tom-hong-of-smith-gambrell\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-office-managing-partner-mutual-respect-is-essential-says-tom-hong-of-smith-gambrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/08\/how-i-made-office-managing-partner-mutual-respect-is-essential-says-tom-hong-of-smith-gambrell\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Office Managing Partner: ‘Mutual Respect Is Essential,’ Says Tom Hong of Smith Gambrell"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Get to know your colleagues and understand how the business works. You don’t have to share the same interests, but mutual respect is essential. The people who tend to thrive are those who take the time to build relationships and to understand how decisions, financial and otherwise, shape a firm’s trajectory.”<\/p>\n

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“Get to know your colleagues and understand how the business works. You don’t have to share the same interests, but mutual respect is essential. The people who tend to thrive are those who take the time to build relationships and to understand how decisions, financial and otherwise, shape a firm’s trajectory.”<\/p>\n

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“Get to know your colleagues and understand how the business works. You don’t have to share the same interests, but mutual respect is essential. The people who tend to thrive are those who take the time to build relationships and to understand how decisions, financial and otherwise, shape a firm’s trajectory.” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Get to know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141320,"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-141319","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\/2026\/01\/legal-news-pfdHyv.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141319","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=141319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}