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Good Luck Trying To Make D.C. Lawyers Return To The Office 4 Days Each Week

Office attendance may become ‘one of the more important if not most important issue’ for law firms to deal with in the coming years.

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When you couple a city that already had kind of a flexible work environment with all the government attorneys and their experience now over the last three years, I think that it’s going to be very, very difficult for the Washington firms to get people in more than three days a week.

— Jeffrey Lowe, global practice leader at recruiting firm Major, Lindsey & Africa, in comments given to the National Law Journal, on the “strong resistance” that many D.C. law firms may face when it comes to in-office work mandates. “It [office attendance policies] has the potential to become a very significant differentiator over the next couple of years,” Lowe said, “depending upon which road the different firms go in terms of mandating office return.”

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter and Threads or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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