Job Seekers

As more firms pivot toward a hybrid workplace, they need to sell their attorneys on hoteling and communal space. Law firms have begun thinking carefully about how to manage a space that’s bound to be more focused on collaborative working. 

The constant work-from-home announcements coming from Big Law firms has solidified two things about the future of working.

As Big Law continues to plan for office returns, large law firms are more and more diverging on flexible work arrangements—specifically on whether to require a certain number of days in the firm office space for lawyers and staff, and if so, how many days?

As law firms start the process of reuniting their lawyers in the office, a few lawyers are rebelling—threatening to leave their firm for another, so that they can continue to work from home.  

Take control of your practice. Put yourself in a position to attract and retain clients you admire and find challenging and interesting. Become less dependent on others to feed your pipeline.

Partners are opting to continue working well into their 60’s and beyond – act decisively and
quickly. There will never be a better time to make the lateral partner move.

If you’re NOT going to be transparent when making the lateral move, don’t bother.

A young lawyer with three children abandoned a job at a firm to seek a better work-life balance, with a new position inside of a corporate legal department. The past year has been full of late-night Zoom calls, scrambling to keep up with a shifting regimen of public health regulations and not as much influence over the company’s overall policies than the lawyer originally sought out. 

It has been well over a year since the COVID-19 pandemic pushed law firms to quickly move out of their office spaces. Law firms have taken a wide-range of approaches when it comes to getting people back into the office. Some firms moved personnel back in last summer, while others are still remote, or as close to it as they can. 

Big law is on a hiring frenzy for regulatory, policy and enforcement lawyers, with a string of big firms in mid-April adding former government lawyers, prosecutors and legislative aides.