{"id":164943,"date":"2026-10-14T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=164943"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:59:59","slug":"how-i-founded-a-law-firm-a-love-for-the-law-is-key-says-james-mcmanis-of-mcmanis-faulkner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/14\/how-i-founded-a-law-firm-a-love-for-the-law-is-key-says-james-mcmanis-of-mcmanis-faulkner\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Founded a Law Firm: ‘A Love for the Law Is Key,’ Says James McManis of McManis Faulkner"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It’s not easy, but it is very satisfying. You can’t be concerned about the ‘perks.’ A love for the law and love for clients is key. I have always believed the law is a service profession: how can you help people?”<\/p>\n

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“It’s not easy, but it is very satisfying. You can’t be concerned about the ‘perks.’ A love for the law and love for clients is key. I have always believed the law is a service profession: how can you help people?”<\/p>\n

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“It’s not easy, but it is very satisfying. You can’t be concerned about the ‘perks.’ A love for the law and love for clients is key. I have always believed the law is a service profession: how can you help people?” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “It’s not easy, but it is very satisfying. You can’t be concerned about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164944,"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-164943","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\/164943","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=164943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164949,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164943\/revisions\/164949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}