{"id":154956,"date":"2026-06-17T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=154956"},"modified":"2026-06-17T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-office-managing-partner-do-not-stop-trying-to-distinguish-yourself-says-michael-schmidt-of-cozen-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/17\/how-i-made-office-managing-partner-do-not-stop-trying-to-distinguish-yourself-says-michael-schmidt-of-cozen-oconnor\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Office Managing Partner: ‘Do Not Stop Trying to Distinguish Yourself,’ Says Michael Schmidt of Cozen O’Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Whether you are out of law school for two days or 50 years, do not stop trying to distinguish yourself to your clients and firm colleagues, and always remember how many lawyers are out there who also feel they can do what you do. The moment you believe you are the only one who can do what you do, without any need to learn, develop, and evolve, that is the moment you need to graciously exit the industry.”<\/p>\n

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“Whether you are out of law school for two days or 50 years, do not stop trying to distinguish yourself to your clients and firm colleagues, and always remember how many lawyers are out there who also feel they can do what you do. The moment you believe you are the only one who can do what you do, without any need to learn, develop, and evolve, that is the moment you need to graciously exit the industry.”<\/p>\n

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“Whether you are out of law school for two days or 50 years, do not stop trying to distinguish yourself to your clients and firm colleagues, and always remember how many lawyers are out there who also feel they can do what you do. The moment you believe you are the only one who can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154957,"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-154956","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\/06\/legal-news-UEBJEP.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154956","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=154956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154965,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154956\/revisions\/154965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}