Big Law Shifting Preferences to In-Office Work, Data Shows | The Legal Intelligencer - Law.com

What You Need to Know

• Big Law firms are increasingly pushing for more days per week in the office than not, aggregated Am Law 200 data suggests.
• According to data gathered by nQ Zebraworks, the most popular target date for returning to the office already occurred in September.
• Eager to return to the office, Big Law firms like Duane Morris and Blank Rome imposed some form of a vaccine requirement prior to the federal mandate.

While many leading legal industry players have embraced hybrid working arrangements out of necessity during the fourth wave of COVID-19, aggregated data from the Am Law 200 suggests a shifting preference toward keeping lawyers in the office more days out of the week than initially announced.

In the initial planning phase of Am Law 200 firms’ office returns, one to two days of in-office work per week was the most popular model, according to aggregated data reviewed by Law.com. Data was gathered by legal tech firm nQ Zebraworks and includes 89 Am Law 200 firms.

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source: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2021/10/14/big-law-shifting-preferences-to-in-office-work-data-shows/

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