{"id":146320,"date":"2026-03-18T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=146320"},"modified":"2026-03-18T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-partner-think-more-broadly-about-why-were-doing-what-were-doing-says-komal-nigam-of-hogan-lovells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/18\/how-i-made-partner-think-more-broadly-about-why-were-doing-what-were-doing-says-komal-nigam-of-hogan-lovells\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Partner: ‘Think More Broadly About Why We’re Doing What We’re Doing,’ Says Komal Nigam of Hogan Lovells"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Be curious. Associates are generally expected to have strong baseline legal skills, but those who stand out think more broadly about why we’re doing what we’re doing why this is an issue for the client, how it fits into broader business concerns, and how risks can be calibrated or mitigated. Curiosity leads to better judgment and more practical advice for our clients.”<\/p>\n

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“Be curious. Associates are generally expected to have strong baseline legal skills, but those who stand out think more broadly about why we’re doing what we’re doing why this is an issue for the client, how it fits into broader business concerns, and how risks can be calibrated or mitigated. Curiosity leads to better judgment and more practical advice for our clients.”<\/p>\n

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“Be curious. Associates are generally expected to have strong baseline legal skills, but those who stand out think more broadly about why we’re doing what we’re doing why this is an issue for the client, how it fits into broader business concerns, and how risks can be calibrated or mitigated. Curiosity leads to better judgment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146321,"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-146320","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-HUl8fu.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146320","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=146320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146332,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146320\/revisions\/146332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}