{"id":160709,"date":"2026-08-17T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=160709"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-law-firm-leadership-lead-the-whole-firm-not-just-the-lawyers-says-tom-krider-of-smith-currie-oles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/17\/how-i-made-law-firm-leadership-lead-the-whole-firm-not-just-the-lawyers-says-tom-krider-of-smith-currie-oles\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Law Firm Leadership: ‘Lead the Whole Firm, Not Just the Lawyers,’ Says Tom Krider of Smith Currie Oles"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When you get to a leadership role, you have to be able to lead the whole firm, not just the lawyers, and the only way to do that is to have built some real fluency in how the business actually runs.”<\/p>\n

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“When you get to a leadership role, you have to be able to lead the whole firm, not just the lawyers, and the only way to do that is to have built some real fluency in how the business actually runs.”<\/p>\n

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“When you get to a leadership role, you have to be able to lead the whole firm, not just the lawyers, and the only way to do that is to have built some real fluency in how the business actually runs.” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “When you get to a leadership role, you have to be able to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160709","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=160709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160720,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160709\/revisions\/160720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}