{"id":142479,"date":"2026-01-22T20:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/22\/how-i-made-partner-focus-on-learning-and-doing-good-work-says-caitlin-piper-of-hogan-lovells\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-partner-focus-on-learning-and-doing-good-work-says-caitlin-piper-of-hogan-lovells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/22\/how-i-made-partner-focus-on-learning-and-doing-good-work-says-caitlin-piper-of-hogan-lovells\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Partner: ‘Focus on Learning and Doing Good Work,’ Says Caitlin Piper of Hogan Lovells"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Focus on doing the job you have right now as best as you can. Try not to get fixated on making partner while you’re early in your career. Just focus on learning and doing good work. The rest will follow in time. With that in mind, be open to opportunities\u2014whether they come at your current firm or somewhere else\u2014and understand there’s no single path to partnership.”<\/p>\n

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“Focus on doing the job you have right now as best as you can. Try not to get fixated on making partner while you’re early in your career. Just focus on learning and doing good work. The rest will follow in time. With that in mind, be open to opportunities\u2014whether they come at your current firm or somewhere else\u2014and understand there’s no single path to partnership.”<\/p>\n

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“Focus on doing the job you have right now as best as you can. Try not to get fixated on making partner while you’re early in your career. Just focus on learning and doing good work. The rest will follow in time. With that in mind, be open to opportunities\u2014whether they come at your current […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142480,"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-142479","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\/142479","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=142479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}