{"id":158473,"date":"2026-07-27T13:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=158473"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:59:59","slug":"letter-from-asia-the-danger-of-being-merely-fit-for-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/27\/letter-from-asia-the-danger-of-being-merely-fit-for-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Asia: The Danger of Being Merely ‘Fit for Purpose’"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Asia’s legal market becomes leaner and more selective, firms are discovering that success is no longer about being able to do everything, but about becoming the obvious choice for something.<\/p>\n

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As Asia’s legal market becomes leaner and more selective, firms are discovering that success is no longer about being able to do everything, but about becoming the obvious choice for something.<\/p>\n

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As Asia’s legal market becomes leaner and more selective, firms are discovering that success is no longer about being able to do everything, but about becoming the obvious choice for something. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As Asia’s legal market becomes leaner and more selective, firms are discovering that success is no longer about being able to do everything, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158474,"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-158473","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-ts1JPU.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158473","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=158473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158484,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158473\/revisions\/158484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}