Many law firms are telling their staff to report back in the office as COVID restrictions are eased. Law firms are faced with recruitment and retention challenges. Since the Great Recession, firms have been become more lean and have made sure that partners have more skin in the firm’s financial holdings. Going forward law firms are well advised to make a hybrid model of in-office and remote work part of the new normal. Law firms’ leadership need to recognize that hybrid work is perhaps the only way retain and recruit a diverse and gifted group of legal talent.

Source: New York Times September 23, 2022 19:10 UTC