{"id":159599,"date":"2026-08-05T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/05\/how-we-made-partner-never-stop-asking-questions-say-alex-and-zach-nemtzow-of-wilmer\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:59:59","slug":"how-we-made-partner-never-stop-asking-questions-say-alex-and-zach-nemtzow-of-wilmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/05\/how-we-made-partner-never-stop-asking-questions-say-alex-and-zach-nemtzow-of-wilmer\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Made Partner: ‘Never Stop Asking Questions,’ Say Alex and Zach Nemtzow of Wilmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Never stop asking questions. Even the best lawyers don’t know all the answers. Whether you’re asking a senior attorney why they made a strategic decision, asking a mentor for career advice, or asking a client what’s important to them or their business\u2014those questions are often what separate technically strong lawyers from future partners who go the extra mile.”<\/p>\n

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“Never stop asking questions. Even the best lawyers don’t know all the answers. Whether you’re asking a senior attorney why they made a strategic decision, asking a mentor for career advice, or asking a client what’s important to them or their business\u2014those questions are often what separate technically strong lawyers from future partners who go the extra mile.”<\/p>\n

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“Never stop asking questions. Even the best lawyers don’t know all the answers. Whether you’re asking a senior attorney why they made a strategic decision, asking a mentor for career advice, or asking a client what’s important to them or their business\u2014those questions are often what separate technically strong lawyers from future partners who go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159600,"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-159599","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\/08\/legal-news-eHTXd0.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159599","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=159599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}