{"id":145149,"date":"2026-03-01T20:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/01\/how-i-made-it-back-to-partner-business-development-is-a-long-game-michael-millikan-of-ice-miller\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T20:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-it-back-to-partner-business-development-is-a-long-game-michael-millikan-of-ice-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/01\/how-i-made-it-back-to-partner-business-development-is-a-long-game-michael-millikan-of-ice-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made It Back to Partner: ‘Business Development Is a Long Game,’ Michael Millikan of Ice Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Be engaged. Be present in the office. Build relationships. Seek feedback. Make time for these things and ask your partners how you can improve. Do not make the same mistake twice. Begin building your network early and stay intentional about staying in touch with colleagues, friends and acquaintances. Business development is a long game, and consistent effort is noticed by the partnership, appreciated and it positions you well for the next step in your career\u2014becoming a partner.”<\/p>\n

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“Be engaged. Be present in the office. Build relationships. Seek feedback. Make time for these things and ask your partners how you can improve. Do not make the same mistake twice. Begin building your network early and stay intentional about staying in touch with colleagues, friends and acquaintances. Business development is a long game, and consistent effort is noticed by the partnership, appreciated and it positions you well for the next step in your career\u2014becoming a partner.”<\/p>\n

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“Be engaged. Be present in the office. Build relationships. Seek feedback. Make time for these things and ask your partners how you can improve. Do not make the same mistake twice. Begin building your network early and stay intentional about staying in touch with colleagues, friends and acquaintances. Business development is a long game, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145150,"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-145149","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\/03\/legal-news-S8RFP5.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145149","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=145149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}