Omicron Exacerbates Cultural Divides Within Law Firms | The American Lawyer - The American Lawyer

What You Need to Know

• Omicron, with its high transmission rate but lower hospitalization rate, has firms diverging on the right way to move forward.
• Some firms are contending with various internal opinions on the future of work.
• Firm leaders are finding there is no way to keep all of their people happy.

Law firms, as well as the attorneys and business professionals who comprise them, are now all over the map when it comes down to the future of work. And the latest COVID-19 wave is magnifying the divides, which are arising not only between firms but within firms.

Omicron, the highly contagious COVID-19 variant now raging across the U.S., is reportedly less lethal. For those who are fully vaccinated and boosted, as many attorneys and business professionals at large law firms are, this variant is producing much milder symptoms.

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