WilmerHale Tells Lawyers to Hit Office Four Days a Week

March 3, 2025, 11:04 PM UTC

WilmerHale is requiring its lawyers to be in the office four days a week, making it the latest Big Law firm to mandate more in-office time from its attorneys.

The law firm is bumping up its mandatory in-office days from 3 to 4 days a week, a WilmerHale spokesperson said Monday.

The move by Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr comes three days after Manhattan-founded law firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison said it would be asking its lawyers to hit the office Monday through Thursday, starting April 30.

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Ropes & Gray, and Vinson & Elkins have all adopted a four-day-a-week office requirements. Latham & Watkins moved to four days a week for lawyers in its New York office earlier this year.


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