{"id":146575,"date":"2026-03-20T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/20\/how-i-made-partner-make-every-single-minute-of-your-career-a-learning-opportunity-says-leonela-vaccaro-padro-n-of-venable\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-partner-make-every-single-minute-of-your-career-a-learning-opportunity-says-leonela-vaccaro-padro-n-of-venable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/20\/how-i-made-partner-make-every-single-minute-of-your-career-a-learning-opportunity-says-leonela-vaccaro-padro-n-of-venable\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Partner: ‘Make Every Single Minute of Your Career a Learning Opportunity,’ Says Leonela Vaccaro Padro n of Venable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Make every single minute of your career a learning opportunity. I tell all the associates that I mentor that they should view their jobs as additional schooling. Every email is an opportunity to hone your written communication skills. Every drafting exercise is an opportunity to learn how to draft better. Each interaction with a senior attorney at your firm is an opportunity to learn different communication, leadership, and lawyering styles and skills.<\/p>\n

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Make every single minute of your career a learning opportunity. I tell all the associates that I mentor that they should view their jobs as additional schooling. Every email is an opportunity to hone your written communication skills. Every drafting exercise is an opportunity to learn how to draft better. Each interaction with a senior attorney at your firm is an opportunity to learn different communication, leadership, and lawyering styles and skills.<\/p>\n

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Make every single minute of your career a learning opportunity. I tell all the associates that I mentor that they should view their jobs as additional schooling. Every email is an opportunity to hone your written communication skills. Every drafting exercise is an opportunity to learn how to draft better. Each interaction with a senior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146576,"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-146575","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-3p1trt.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146575","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=146575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}