Firms Dump October Office Return Plans Over Delta Variant Unease

Big Law firms are abandoning plans to return lawyers to offices next month and are eyeing dates in early 2022 instead because of worries about the Covid-19 delta variant.

The delay will “allow time for further vaccination and the case volumes to stabilize,” Norton Rose Fulbright said in a statement. Cooley was among the first major firms to say it would not require office returns this year, while Perkins Coie, Proskauer Rose, Wilkie Farr & Gallagher and Wilson Sonsini shifted returns from October to next year, with most citing the variant.

“It’s been too long since we’ve had a ...