{"id":149061,"date":"2026-04-17T12:22:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/17\/biglaw-associate-donates-kidney-to-partner-in-remarkable-act-of-generosity\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:22:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:22:59","slug":"biglaw-associate-donates-kidney-to-partner-in-remarkable-act-of-generosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/17\/biglaw-associate-donates-kidney-to-partner-in-remarkable-act-of-generosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw Associate Donates Kidney To Partner In Remarkable Act Of Generosity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Our hope with sharing our story is not to promote or glorify ourselves. Our intention is to inspire others to generosity. <\/strong><\/p>\n

[Post-surgery,] it felt like we had pulled of the biggest project of our careers. I had a tremendous feeling of achievement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Hope Watson<\/a>, an associate at Thompson Coburn, in comments given to the ABA Journal<\/a>, concerning her July kidney donation to Bernie Citron<\/a>, a partner at the firm she\u2019d never met before. \u201cFor someone you have never met? Who is younger than my kids? To do this?\u201d Citron said of Watson. \u201cIt\u2019s just out-and-out amazing that there are people like Hope out there who would do something like this.\u201d Christopher Hohn, chair of Thompson Coburn, said of the situation in a statement, \u201cWhat Hope did for Bernie is an extraordinary act of generosity, but it\u2019s also true to who we are as a firm. We have a deeply collegial culture, and we look out for one another, both professionally and personally.\u201d Thompson Coburn donated $25,000 to the National Kidney Foundation in the wake of this touching story.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Biglaw Associate Donates Kidney To Partner In Remarkable Act Of Generosity<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Our hope with sharing our story is not to promote or glorify ourselves. Our intention is to inspire others to generosity. <\/strong><\/p>\n

[Post-surgery,] it felt like we had pulled of the biggest project of our careers. I had a tremendous feeling of achievement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Hope Watson<\/a>, an associate at Thompson Coburn, in comments given to the ABA Journal<\/a>, concerning her July kidney donation to Bernie Citron<\/a>, a partner at the firm she\u2019d never met before. \u201cFor someone you have never met? Who is younger than my kids? To do this?\u201d Citron said of Watson. \u201cIt\u2019s just out-and-out amazing that there are people like Hope out there who would do something like this.\u201d Christopher Hohn, chair of Thompson Coburn, said of the situation in a statement, \u201cWhat Hope did for Bernie is an extraordinary act of generosity, but it\u2019s also true to who we are as a firm. We have a deeply collegial culture, and we look out for one another, both professionally and personally.\u201d Thompson Coburn donated $25,000 to the National Kidney Foundation in the wake of this touching story.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. Our hope with sharing our story is not to promote or glorify ourselves. Our intention is to inspire others to generosity. [Post-surgery,] it felt like we had pulled of the biggest project of our careers. I had a tremendous feeling of achievement. \u2014\u00a0 Hope Watson, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149062,"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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Staci-Zaretsky-OcNAgc.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149061","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=149061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}