ANALYSIS: Will Covid Force Firms to Ditch the Fancy Offices?

If you’ve ever walked into a large law firm’s urban office, you know the vibe. Vast slabs of marble or natural stone covering the floors, the walls, the enormous front desk where a security guard scans visitors’ IDs and shows people to the elevators. A modern sculpture or commissioned painting with a plaque saying something about the artist. The calming burble of a cascading water feature.

But since the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic in March, not much legal work is being done in these gilded quarters.

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