The legal profession might never be the same.
The attraction of working from home or a remote location that’s not the office is showing signs of sticking around in the industry in the post-pandemic era. What risks this poses to the landlords who are counting on law firms to fill out office space like they did before the pandemic is an open question.
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Data from brokerage Cushman & Wakefield (CWK)’s most recent “Bright Insights” report on the state of the legal industry’s nexus with commercial real estate shows that 58 percent of people who work for the nation’s 100 highest-grossing law firms, according to American Lawyer (AmLaw), and 52 percent of those at all law firms — both attorneys and support — are working outside of the office at least two days a week. David Smith, head of occupier insights for the Americas for C&W and a co-author of the report, said law firms renewing their leases have been taking some 13 percent less office space than they had before.
The big takeaway? That remote work had achieved “relative normalcy” in the profession in the years following COVID.
“We are finding that law firms using hybrid and remote work, on average they’re back in the office more than other sectors, but there is a ton of variance by firms,” Smith said. “Some firms are moving back toward four or five days (in the office) a week, some are wanting their support staff in the office a lot, some are actually...
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