{"id":148034,"date":"2026-04-06T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=148034"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-partner-take-ownership-and-initiative-early-says-kristina-barry-of-grunfeld-desiderio-lebowitz-silverman-klestadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/06\/how-i-made-partner-take-ownership-and-initiative-early-says-kristina-barry-of-grunfeld-desiderio-lebowitz-silverman-klestadt\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Partner: ‘Take Ownership and Initiative Early,’ Says Kristina Barry of Grunfeld Desiderio Lebowitz Silverman & Klestadt"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The best advice I can give to an associate who wants to make partner is to take ownership and initiative early in their career and to think about their long term career goals. Having face time with the partners is extremely valuable when you’re an associate and I would also recommend finding a mentor in the firm who can help answer questions and be a source of support.”<\/p>\n

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“The best advice I can give to an associate who wants to make partner is to take ownership and initiative early in their career and to think about their long term career goals. Having face time with the partners is extremely valuable when you’re an associate and I would also recommend finding a mentor in the firm who can help answer questions and be a source of support.”<\/p>\n

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“The best advice I can give to an associate who wants to make partner is to take ownership and initiative early in their career and to think about their long term career goals. Having face time with the partners is extremely valuable when you’re an associate and I would also recommend finding a mentor in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148035,"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-148034","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\/04\/legal-news-Kd4K2X.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148034","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=148034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148036,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148034\/revisions\/148036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}