{"id":147235,"date":"2026-03-27T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=147235"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-partner-doing-great-work-is-the-baseline-expectation-says-sharon-steinerman-of-alston-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/27\/how-i-made-partner-doing-great-work-is-the-baseline-expectation-says-sharon-steinerman-of-alston-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Partner: ‘Doing Great Work Is the Baseline Expectation,’ Says Sharon Steinerman of Alston & Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

“My advice to associates looking to make partner is that doing great work is the baseline expectation. You must take initiative, be responsive, and embrace an ownership mentality. I learned early on that there’s a huge amount of value in speaking up and providing your own thoughts on strategy and potential next steps, no matter how junior you are or how much about the law you think you don’t know.”<\/p>\n

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“My advice to associates looking to make partner is that doing great work is the baseline expectation. You must take initiative, be responsive, and embrace an ownership mentality. I learned early on that there’s a huge amount of value in speaking up and providing your own thoughts on strategy and potential next steps, no matter how junior you are or how much about the law you think you don’t know.”<\/p>\n

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“My advice to associates looking to make partner is that doing great work is the baseline expectation. You must take initiative, be responsive, and embrace an ownership mentality. I learned early on that there’s a huge amount of value in speaking up and providing your own thoughts on strategy and potential next steps, no matter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147236,"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-147235","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-CjIYrX.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147235","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=147235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147240,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147235\/revisions\/147240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}