{"id":122941,"date":"2025-06-13T18:18:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T02:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/13\/los-angeles-law-firms-navigate-working-amid-civil-unrest-curfews-downtown\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T18:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T02:18:57","slug":"los-angeles-law-firms-navigate-working-amid-civil-unrest-curfews-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/13\/los-angeles-law-firms-navigate-working-amid-civil-unrest-curfews-downtown\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Law Firms Navigate Working Amid Civil Unrest, Curfews Downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one week into citywide protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Am Law 100 firms in Downtown LA remain open, but cautiously.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/i\/920195423\/0\/law\/legal-news\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/2\/920195423\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/fbshare20.png?fit=1080%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/28\/920195423\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/fblike20.png?fit=1080%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/29\/920195423\/law\/legal-news,\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/pinterest20.png?fit=1080%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/12\/920195423\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/stumble20.png?fit=1080%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/24\/920195423\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/x.png?fit=1080%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/20\/920195423\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/rss20.png?fit=1080%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>Protests against raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles continued into their eighth day on Friday, with about a square mile of Downtown LA remaining under curfew, prompting area law firms to embrace remote work and, in some cases, either postpone client meetings or move them online. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>While most Am Law firms in Los Angeles were already working a hybrid schedule and embraced remote work, several told The Recorder that they have advised their lawyers to work from home and avoid commuting during the unrest, as protests have caused delays in transit systems and <a href=\"https:\/\/lacity.gov\/highlights\/potential-transit-and-road-closures-los-angeles-due-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">frequent road closures<\/a> in the downtown area. The curfew, issued by LA Mayor Karen Bass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-06-11\/downtown-los-angeles-curfew-explainer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on Wednesday<\/a>, remains in effect from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one week into citywide protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Am Law 100 firms in Downtown LA remain open, but cautiously. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Protests against raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles continued into their eighth day on Friday, with about a square mile of Downtown LA remaining under curfew, prompting area law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/legal-news-miOXUL.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}