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Law Firms Looking to Retail Space and Other Office Alternatives Post-Pandemic

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
March 01, 2021

Wilson Elser's office in Las Vegas isn't in a glitzy downtown office tower. It's in a mixed-use entertainment center in space originally intended for a Crate & Barrel store, an unusual location for an Am Law 200 office. But that kind of open-mindedness may become more widespread as firms looking for space in 2021 increasingly consider cost and lifestyle factors.

The prospect of using retail space for law offices is the latest adaptation, in addition to innovations such as hoteling and other forms of shared workspace, that may define law firm offices in the future as the COVID-19 pandemic makes a permanent mark on how firms configure and run their offices.

Firms such as Wilson Elser and Clark Hill are taking steps right now, even before offices reopen nationwide for usual operations, to rethink how their offices are sized and configured.

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