{"id":163411,"date":"2026-09-23T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/23\/how-i-made-partner-do-your-best-every-day-says-matthew-winne-of-lightfoot-franklin-white\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-partner-do-your-best-every-day-says-matthew-winne-of-lightfoot-franklin-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/23\/how-i-made-partner-do-your-best-every-day-says-matthew-winne-of-lightfoot-franklin-white\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Partner: ‘Do Your Best Every Day,’ Says Matthew Winne of Lightfoot Franklin & White"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Do your best every day. This is a stressful job and one of the hardest things is that there is always more you can do. There will be nights you file a brief knowing you could have done one more pass, or you’ll leave a deposition knowing there were more questions to ask. I have not had a single day in my career where I felt I was done and there was nothing else I could do. It takes time to get used to that.”<\/p>\n

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“Do your best every day. This is a stressful job and one of the hardest things is that there is always more you can do. There will be nights you file a brief knowing you could have done one more pass, or you’ll leave a deposition knowing there were more questions to ask. I have not had a single day in my career where I felt I was done and there was nothing else I could do. It takes time to get used to that.”<\/p>\n

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“Do your best every day. This is a stressful job and one of the hardest things is that there is always more you can do. There will be nights you file a brief knowing you could have done one more pass, or you’ll leave a deposition knowing there were more questions to ask. I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163412,"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-163411","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\/163411","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=163411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}