As he prepared his partners for a move to new offices in 2014, Jeffrey Grill faced resistance. The new space would save Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman $5 million a year in rent and $4 million yearly in operating costs. But partner offices were half their former size, and storage was slashed, according to Grill, managing partner of the Washington, D.C., office.
A big challenge was convincing lawyers to throw stuff out. “One corporate finance partner had a big credenza with every issue of the Business Lawyer going back to 1974,” he says. “I told her, ‘You’ve got to get rid of these.’ She said, ‘What if I need them?’ I took one down and showed her that the laws described in the article were no longer on the books. I said, “You will throw them away.’”
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