Cooley Tells Lawyers They Can Mostly Stay Home as Offices ‘Open’

Cooley LLP will allow many of its lawyers and staff to decide whether to come into the office when the law firm officially reopens workspaces in June.

The firm will allow employees whose duties allow them to work remotely to continue doing so without being required to return to offices, Cooley’s chair Joe Conroy said in a memorandum viewed by Bloomberg Law on Wednesday.

The new flexible working model comes as law firms look to navigate return to office plans after two years of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and its various surges.

“At the core of our flexible approach ...