{"id":157814,"date":"2026-07-22T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/22\/how-i-made-partner-dont-wait-for-things-to-fall-in-your-lap-says-joseph-gerber-of-knobbe-martens\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-partner-dont-wait-for-things-to-fall-in-your-lap-says-joseph-gerber-of-knobbe-martens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/22\/how-i-made-partner-dont-wait-for-things-to-fall-in-your-lap-says-joseph-gerber-of-knobbe-martens\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Partner: ‘Don’t Wait for Things to Fall in Your Lap,’ Says Joseph Gerber of Knobbe Martens"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Who do you want to work with? What kind of clients do you want? What are you going to do to find them? Be proactive in thinking about these questions, and don’t wait for things to fall in your lap\u2014they probably won’t.”<\/p>\n

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“Who do you want to work with? What kind of clients do you want? What are you going to do to find them? Be proactive in thinking about these questions, and don’t wait for things to fall in your lap\u2014they probably won’t.”<\/p>\n

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“Who do you want to work with? What kind of clients do you want? What are you going to do to find them? Be proactive in thinking about these questions, and don’t wait for things to fall in your lap\u2014they probably won’t.” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Who do you want to work with? What kind of clients do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157815,"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-157814","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\/07\/legal-news-BJeLZY.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157814","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=157814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}