Law firms grapple with rapid changes in office environments

Just a decade or 15 years ago, if you were asked to picture the office space of a law firm, it probably would have gone something like this: You would likely have envisioned a formal environment with lots of private offices that got bigger and fancier based on attorneys’ seniority. You’d probably have imagined a law library, an elegant space filled with thick, bound books. And there’d be an area for storing boxes and boxes of documents.

‘The mentoring and camaraderie that come with being in the office, that’s a little more challenging when you’re trying to build a relationship with someone young on the phone or even on Zoom.’ Douglas Szabo, Henderson Franklin