Lawyers Are Flouting the Return-to-Office Mandate

For all you law firm partners out there who believe that it’s high time for the troops to stop the nonsense of remote work and get back to the office, I have some friendly advice: Get over it.

As much as you might pine away for the good old pre-pandemic days when the office buzzed with activity, it’s not happening. From what I’ve been hearing, folks are flouting the return-to-office mandate. And firms can’t (or won’t) do a damn thing about it.

The remote work genie is out of the bottle, so it behooves firms to acknowledge that reality. Recent ...