{"id":163167,"date":"2026-09-18T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/18\/how-i-made-partner-find-the-firm-that-is-the-best-fit-for-you-says-sean-farrell-of-smith-currie\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-partner-find-the-firm-that-is-the-best-fit-for-you-says-sean-farrell-of-smith-currie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/18\/how-i-made-partner-find-the-firm-that-is-the-best-fit-for-you-says-sean-farrell-of-smith-currie\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Partner: ‘Find the Firm That Is the Best Fit for You,’ Says Sean Farrell of Smith Currie"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Find the firm that is the best fit for you. The ‘best fit’ may not be the firm that offers the highest salary or the area of law that seems the most attractive at the time. Seek out the firm where you like the people, the work, and the clients. Every job is going to have its challenges, but the goal is to find the firm where the challenges are tolerable and outweighed by the positive aspects.”<\/p>\n

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“Find the firm that is the best fit for you. The ‘best fit’ may not be the firm that offers the highest salary or the area of law that seems the most attractive at the time. Seek out the firm where you like the people, the work, and the clients. Every job is going to have its challenges, but the goal is to find the firm where the challenges are tolerable and outweighed by the positive aspects.”<\/p>\n

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“Find the firm that is the best fit for you. The ‘best fit’ may not be the firm that offers the highest salary or the area of law that seems the most attractive at the time. Seek out the firm where you like the people, the work, and the clients. Every job is going to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163168,"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-163167","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\/163167","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=163167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}