{"id":159034,"date":"2026-07-31T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=159034"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-practice-group-chair-you-need-an-enormous-work-ethic-says-jon-mechanic-of-fried-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/31\/how-i-made-practice-group-chair-you-need-an-enormous-work-ethic-says-jon-mechanic-of-fried-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Practice Group Chair: ‘You Need an Enormous Work Ethic,’ Says Jon Mechanic of Fried Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"

“you need an enormous work ethic. That’s non-negotiable. You can’t ask people to go the extra mile if you’re not willing to go further yourself. But even more important than that is genuinely caring about the people around you. Not as a management strategy. Actually caring. If you want to build something that lasts, it can’t be about you. A leader’s job is to make the people around them successful. That means having their backs, not just professionally, but personally. People go through difficult things. Life happens. And when it does, they need to know their leader is there for them.”<\/p>\n

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“you need an enormous work ethic. That’s non-negotiable. You can’t ask people to go the extra mile if you’re not willing to go further yourself. But even more important than that is genuinely caring about the people around you. Not as a management strategy. Actually caring. If you want to build something that lasts, it can’t be about you. A leader’s job is to make the people around them successful. That means having their backs, not just professionally, but personally. People go through difficult things. Life happens. And when it does, they need to know their leader is there for them.”<\/p>\n

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“you need an enormous work ethic. That’s non-negotiable. You can’t ask people to go the extra mile if you’re not willing to go further yourself. But even more important than that is genuinely caring about the people around you. Not as a management strategy. Actually caring. If you want to build something that lasts, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159035,"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-159034","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-oBobbi.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159034","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=159034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159048,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159034\/revisions\/159048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}