{"id":162820,"date":"2026-09-14T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/14\/how-i-made-law-firm-leadership-focus-on-your-people-skills-says-jacqueline-newman-of-berkman-bottger\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-law-firm-leadership-focus-on-your-people-skills-says-jacqueline-newman-of-berkman-bottger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/14\/how-i-made-law-firm-leadership-focus-on-your-people-skills-says-jacqueline-newman-of-berkman-bottger\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Law Firm Leadership: ‘Focus on Your People Skills,’ Says Jacqueline Newman of Berkman Bottger"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It is about being creative. It is about having the right team surrounding you and supporting you. The advice I would give to law firm leaders is to focus on your people skills, figure out what is important to each person at your firm, considering the impact (not intent) your words and actions have, and think a few steps ahead about how this is going to impact the team surrounding you. All of that, in my opinion, is more important than your originations and your billable hours.”<\/p>\n

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“It is about being creative. It is about having the right team surrounding you and supporting you. The advice I would give to law firm leaders is to focus on your people skills, figure out what is important to each person at your firm, considering the impact (not intent) your words and actions have, and think a few steps ahead about how this is going to impact the team surrounding you. All of that, in my opinion, is more important than your originations and your billable hours.”<\/p>\n

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“It is about being creative. It is about having the right team surrounding you and supporting you. The advice I would give to law firm leaders is to focus on your people skills, figure out what is important to each person at your firm, considering the impact (not intent) your words and actions have, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162821,"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-162820","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\/162820","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=162820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}