{"id":144770,"date":"2026-02-24T20:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/24\/how-i-made-partner-dont-keep-your-head-down-says-melissa-levine-of-hogan-lovells\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-partner-dont-keep-your-head-down-says-melissa-levine-of-hogan-lovells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/24\/how-i-made-partner-dont-keep-your-head-down-says-melissa-levine-of-hogan-lovells\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Partner: ‘Don’t Keep Your Head Down,’ Says Melissa Levine of Hogan Lovells"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Do excellent substantive work, but don’t keep your head down. Build your internal network so colleagues know what you do and trust you with opportunities. Think about how to expand work and increase your profile. Just as important, be reliable and communicative. If something is going to slip, say so early, where possible\u2014clear communication allows teams and clients to manage expectations and avoids unnecessary issues.”<\/p>\n

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“Do excellent substantive work, but don’t keep your head down. Build your internal network so colleagues know what you do and trust you with opportunities. Think about how to expand work and increase your profile. Just as important, be reliable and communicative. If something is going to slip, say so early, where possible\u2014clear communication allows teams and clients to manage expectations and avoids unnecessary issues.”<\/p>\n

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“Do excellent substantive work, but don’t keep your head down. Build your internal network so colleagues know what you do and trust you with opportunities. Think about how to expand work and increase your profile. Just as important, be reliable and communicative. If something is going to slip, say so early, where possible\u2014clear communication allows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144771,"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-144770","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\/02\/legal-news-Dn2yGw.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144770","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=144770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}