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Weil Gotshal Implements Four-Day Office Mandate in London

A number of other US firms have introduced a mandatory four-day in-office week in recent months, including Ropes & Gray and Vinson & Elkins.
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Gender Diversity: Firms Must Jump Off the Bandwagon and Focus on What Works

Next 100 Years founder and former lawyer Dana Denis-Smith calls for a more strategic look at diversity initiatives, focusing on the changes that make a real difference.
4 minute read

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Vinson & Elkins Mandates Four Days in All Offices

The Vinson & Elkins policy applies to most lawyers and business professionals, including at the firm's international offices in London, Dubai and Tokyo.
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Corporate Legal Departments Need to Show Their Value, GCs Say

In-house counsel need to be present and technology, including generative AI, is not going to be able to replace a business's trust in a human lawyer, chief legal officers said at the ALM General Counsel Summit in Sydney.
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Quinn Emanuel, Fried Frank Tell UK Lawyers to WFH Throughout August

The firms are continuing a new, mostly US-firm-led tradition of allowing staff to work remotely during the summer.
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Ropes & Gray's Move to 4 Days in the Office Includes International Offices

Ropes & Gray confirmed that the four days a week in the office also applies to lawyers in London and Dublin, and said lawyers in Asia offices have returned to pre-pandemic norms of five days a week in the office.
4 minute read

International Edition

Ropes Is Latest Law Firm to Require Lawyers to Work Four Days a Week in Office

Ropes leaders told lawyers that the additional time in the office will help the firm be successful in a highly competitive market through collaboration.
2 minute read

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Australian Law Firms Are Flexible About Flexible Work

While most firms say they want lawyers in the office "more often than not," they are not setting hard-and-fast rules. "We know one size fits no one," said MinterEllison chief talent officer Alissa Anderson.
4 minute read

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As Big Law Marches to Most Days in Office, Some 'Bank' Remote Days

The Davis Polk and Weil office policies are an acknowledgment that lawyers have been effective at working remotely, and it would be difficult to take away the concept in one fell swoop, some analysts said.
6 minute read

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Weil Gotshal to Require Four Days of Office Attendance

Weil is the third Am Law 50 New York law firm to require four days of attendance per week, following moves by Skadden and Davis Polk.
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