{"id":153202,"date":"2026-05-29T08:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=153202"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:53:09","slug":"lawyer-padding-and-bragging-creates-practical-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/29\/lawyer-padding-and-bragging-creates-practical-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Padding and Bragging Creates Practical Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sampling of daily headlines is apparently driven by law firms eager to attract lateral partners, to recruit young lawyers, and to please current partners. One wag also recently described this public bragging as a \u201csedative to quiet troublesome partners. Does the profession want or even need this kind of publicity? The answer should be no.<\/p>\n

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A sampling of daily headlines is apparently driven by law firms eager to attract lateral partners, to recruit young lawyers, and to please current partners. One wag also recently described this public bragging as a \u201csedative to quiet troublesome partners. Does the profession want or even need this kind of publicity? The answer should be no.<\/p>\n

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A sampling of daily headlines is apparently driven by law firms eager to attract lateral partners, to recruit young lawyers, and to please current partners. One wag also recently described this public bragging as a \u201csedative to quiet troublesome partners. Does the profession want or even need this kind of publicity? The answer should be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":153203,"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-153202","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\/05\/legal-news-asqq5M.jpg?fit=620%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153202","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=153202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153210,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153202\/revisions\/153210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}