Ropes & Gray Requires Lawyers in Office Starting in November (1)

Ropes & Gray, after delaying its office-return date this month, is asking lawyers to work in-person for one or two days each week starting Nov. 8.

“We have been focused on the earliest possible safe return to our U.S. offices,” Ropes & Gray chair Julie Jones said in an email to the firm. “We believe that being together is essential to our culture.”

The new approach will last until 2022, though lawyers will likely work remotely the full weeks of Thanksgiving and before New Year’s Day, Jones said.

Ropes & Gray is the eleventh largest firm in the U.S. by ...