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Do Office Run-Ins Spark Ideas? Should Lawyers Care?

From where I'm sitting, things are starting to feel a lot more normal. In the last week, I've been to the movies for the first time in 17 months and my third baseball game this year. But one place I still haven't been since our lives were all upended last March is my office.

That's also likely the case for many Big Law attorneys, particularly those on the younger side of the roster. Yet it's likely to be changing in the next couple of months, as law firms' plans for returning personnel to the office are continuing to come into relief.