{"id":166859,"date":"2026-11-05T20:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/05\/how-i-made-practice-group-chair-pay-attention-to-where-needs-are-emerging-says-ilan-t-graff-of-fried-frank\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T20:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:59:59","slug":"how-i-made-practice-group-chair-pay-attention-to-where-needs-are-emerging-says-ilan-t-graff-of-fried-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/05\/how-i-made-practice-group-chair-pay-attention-to-where-needs-are-emerging-says-ilan-t-graff-of-fried-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Practice Group Chair: ‘Pay Attention to Where Needs Are Emerging,’ Says Ilan T. Graff of Fried Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Stay curious. Keep your eyes open beyond your own matters, learn from the people around you, and pay attention to where needs and opportunities are emerging. The more you understand the broader practice, the firm, and your clients, the better positioned you will be to step up and add value when leadership opportunities arise.”<\/p>\n

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“Stay curious. Keep your eyes open beyond your own matters, learn from the people around you, and pay attention to where needs and opportunities are emerging. The more you understand the broader practice, the firm, and your clients, the better positioned you will be to step up and add value when leadership opportunities arise.”<\/p>\n

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“Stay curious. Keep your eyes open beyond your own matters, learn from the people around you, and pay attention to where needs and opportunities are emerging. The more you understand the broader practice, the firm, and your clients, the better positioned you will be to step up and add value when leadership opportunities arise.” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166860,"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-166859","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\/166859","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=166859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}