{"id":163009,"date":"2026-09-16T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=163009"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-partner-being-a-good-person-and-a-good-colleague-goes-a-long-way-says-jeff-jay-of-freshfields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/16\/how-i-made-partner-being-a-good-person-and-a-good-colleague-goes-a-long-way-says-jeff-jay-of-freshfields\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Partner: ‘Being a Good Person and a Good Colleague Goes a Long Way,’ Says Jeff Jay of Freshfields"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Being a good person and a good colleague goes a long way. You’re going to need to have people vouching for you who have seen you in action, who know you as a friend, who know that you’re there for them and that you’ll help them out without expecting anything in return. Being a lawyer is an extremely collaborative job, so you need to have colleagues and clients leaving interactions thinking ‘I like that person. I trust that person. That is a person I can rely on.'”<\/p>\n

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“Being a good person and a good colleague goes a long way. You’re going to need to have people vouching for you who have seen you in action, who know you as a friend, who know that you’re there for them and that you’ll help them out without expecting anything in return. Being a lawyer is an extremely collaborative job, so you need to have colleagues and clients leaving interactions thinking ‘I like that person. I trust that person. That is a person I can rely on.'”<\/p>\n

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“Being a good person and a good colleague goes a long way. You’re going to need to have people vouching for you who have seen you in action, who know you as a friend, who know that you’re there for them and that you’ll help them out without expecting anything in return. Being a lawyer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163010,"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-163009","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\/163009","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=163009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163012,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163009\/revisions\/163012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}