{"id":161346,"date":"2026-08-23T21:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/23\/how-i-made-law-firm-leadership-do-not-let-being-underestimated-discourage-you-says-hillary-nappi-of-awk-survivor-advocate-attorneys\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T21:23:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:23:53","slug":"how-i-made-law-firm-leadership-do-not-let-being-underestimated-discourage-you-says-hillary-nappi-of-awk-survivor-advocate-attorneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/23\/how-i-made-law-firm-leadership-do-not-let-being-underestimated-discourage-you-says-hillary-nappi-of-awk-survivor-advocate-attorneys\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Law Firm Leadership: ‘Do Not Let Being Underestimated Discourage You,’ Says Hillary Nappi of AWK Survivor Advocate Attorneys"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The most meaningful advice I ever received came from one of my first bosses: celebrate the good days, learn from the hard ones, and then move forward with purpose. I would tell my younger self to hold onto that earlier, and to trust it more fully during the difficult stretches. I would also say: do not let being underestimated discourage you.”<\/p>\n

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“The most meaningful advice I ever received came from one of my first bosses: celebrate the good days, learn from the hard ones, and then move forward with purpose. I would tell my younger self to hold onto that earlier, and to trust it more fully during the difficult stretches. I would also say: do not let being underestimated discourage you.”<\/p>\n

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“The most meaningful advice I ever received came from one of my first bosses: celebrate the good days, learn from the hard ones, and then move forward with purpose. I would tell my younger self to hold onto that earlier, and to trust it more fully during the difficult stretches. I would also say: do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161347,"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-161346","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-RPkUzF.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161346","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=161346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}