Law firms increasingly mandate set days in office
As the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown becomes a distant memory, Am Law 100 law firms are increasingly pushing lawyers to return to the office, with some requiring a set number of days per week. (Photo illustration by Sara Wadford/ABA Journal/Shutterstock)
As the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown becomes a distant memory, Am Law 100 law firms are increasingly pushing lawyers to return to the office, with some requiring a set number of days per week.
At least eight firms—including Duane Morris, Goodwin Procter, Haynes and Boone, Reed Smith, White & Case and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr—increased their return-to-office requirements from three days per week to four days per week, according to a story by Law.com.
“Connecting in-person with our clients and our colleagues is a core value of our firm’s culture,” Matthew A. Taylor, the chairman and CEO at Duane Morris, told Law.com. “Our policy that attorneys and staff are either connecting in person with our clients, representing our clients in court or in business meetings, or otherwise being in the office four days a week is one facet of this core value.”
But not all firms are requiring or asking attorneys and staff to be in the office more days per week. Some firms, including Akerman, Fennemore Craig and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, still don’t require a specific number of days in the office at all, according to Law.com.
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