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How Attorneys Can Have Their (Hybrid) Cake and Eat It, Too
Let's be clear, lawyers want to work from home (WFH). In fact, young lawyers feel so strongly about remote work that 44% of them would leave their current jobs for a greater ability to work remotely elsewhere, according to a new report by the ABA.
There are benefits to WFH. Remote work has increased lawyers' ability to deal with biases and focus on mental health — and this was particularly true for women lawyers, 56% of whom reported that remote work actually increased their ability to balance work and family obligations. Ibid. Add on top of this that the two years when firms' doors were shuttered were two of the most profitable years on record (according to the American Lawyer Am Law 100/200 rankings 2022 for many firms, and the benefits to WFH look pretty good.
It should come as no surprise, then, that the recent ABA report also showed 87% of lawyers said their workplaces allowed WFH. This makes sense since when firms mandate any kind of return to the office, those firms experienced double the turnover rate of firms that did not. See, 2022 Thomson Reuters State of the Legal Market.
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