{"id":161680,"date":"2026-08-28T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/28\/how-i-made-partner-speak-up-about-what-you-want-and-advocate-for-yourself-says-jillian-london-of-gibson-dunn\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-partner-speak-up-about-what-you-want-and-advocate-for-yourself-says-jillian-london-of-gibson-dunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/28\/how-i-made-partner-speak-up-about-what-you-want-and-advocate-for-yourself-says-jillian-london-of-gibson-dunn\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Partner: ‘Speak Up About What You Want and Advocate for Yourself,’ Says Jillian London of Gibson Dunn"},"content":{"rendered":"

“At the same time, it’s important to speak up about what you want and advocate for yourself. Partners and mentors need to know that partnership is something you are genuinely working toward so they can help create opportunities for you along the way. Doing great work is absolutely necessary, but it is not always sufficient. You cannot assume that keeping your head down and doing excellent work, by itself, will automatically lead to partnership.”<\/p>\n

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“At the same time, it’s important to speak up about what you want and advocate for yourself. Partners and mentors need to know that partnership is something you are genuinely working toward so they can help create opportunities for you along the way. Doing great work is absolutely necessary, but it is not always sufficient. You cannot assume that keeping your head down and doing excellent work, by itself, will automatically lead to partnership.”<\/p>\n

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“At the same time, it’s important to speak up about what you want and advocate for yourself. Partners and mentors need to know that partnership is something you are genuinely working toward so they can help create opportunities for you along the way. Doing great work is absolutely necessary, but it is not always sufficient. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/legal-news-xYBmOh.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161680","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=161680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}