{"id":151494,"date":"2026-05-18T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=151494"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-founded-a-law-firm-have-a-genuine-calling-for-the-work-says-john-feder-of-rouda-feder-tietjen-mcguinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/18\/how-i-founded-a-law-firm-have-a-genuine-calling-for-the-work-says-john-feder-of-rouda-feder-tietjen-mcguinn\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Founded a Law Firm: ‘Have a Genuine Calling for the Work,’ Says John Feder of Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Make sure you have a genuine calling for the work, because passion is what sustains you when the hours get long and the cases get heavy. (…) That passion has kept me going for more than 45 years, and I think it is the single biggest reason our firm has been able to build what we have built. Beyond that, invest in preparation above all else. That has been the foundation of our success since the day I walked through the door.”<\/p>\n

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“Make sure you have a genuine calling for the work, because passion is what sustains you when the hours get long and the cases get heavy. (…) That passion has kept me going for more than 45 years, and I think it is the single biggest reason our firm has been able to build what we have built. Beyond that, invest in preparation above all else. That has been the foundation of our success since the day I walked through the door.”<\/p>\n

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“Make sure you have a genuine calling for the work, because passion is what sustains you when the hours get long and the cases get heavy. (…) That passion has kept me going for more than 45 years, and I think it is the single biggest reason our firm has been able to build what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":151495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151494","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=151494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151496,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151494\/revisions\/151496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}