{"id":128713,"date":"2025-07-28T12:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/28\/new-york-biglaw-firms-keep-growing-while-midsize-firms-stay-the-same\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:02:30","slug":"new-york-biglaw-firms-keep-growing-while-midsize-firms-stay-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/28\/new-york-biglaw-firms-keep-growing-while-midsize-firms-stay-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Biglaw Firms Keep Growing, While Midsize Firms Stay The Same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><u>Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/quote-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>If Q2 is any indication of what midsized firms are doing, then we should expect midsized firms to continue keeping the same amount of space or becoming more efficient with use of their space<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong><em><i>\u2014 <\/i>Gregg Cohen, principal at real estate firm Cresa, in comments given to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/newyorklawjournal\/2025\/07\/28\/as-big-law-expands-nyc-offices-fewer-midsize-firms-follow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New York Law Journal<\/a>, concerning midsize firms\u2019 office expansion in New York City, compared to that of Biglaw firms. While the biggest of Biglaw firms are increasing their real estate footprints in the Big Apple, only some Am Law 200 and midsized firms are following suit. Cohen went on to say that he thinks most midsize firms will maintain their current square footage, or even reduce their space in the future, rather than further expand.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/Staci-Zaretsky.jpg?w=1080&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Staci Zaretsky\" class=\"wp-image-441281\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/author\/staci-zaretsky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to <a href=\"mailto:staci@abovethelaw.com\">email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/stacizaretsky.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stacizaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@stacizaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/staci-zaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/07\/new-york-biglaw-firms-keep-growing-while-midsize-firms-stay-the-same\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Biglaw Firms Keep Growing, While Midsize Firms Stay The Same<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/06\/size-big-small-large-largest-300x242.png?resize=300%2C242&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><em><u>Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/quote-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>If Q2 is any indication of what midsized firms are doing, then we should expect midsized firms to continue keeping the same amount of space or becoming more efficient with use of their space<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong><em><i>\u2014 <\/i>Gregg Cohen, principal at real estate firm Cresa, in comments given to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/newyorklawjournal\/2025\/07\/28\/as-big-law-expands-nyc-offices-fewer-midsize-firms-follow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New York Law Journal<\/a>, concerning midsize firms\u2019 office expansion in New York City, compared to that of Biglaw firms. While the biggest of Biglaw firms are increasing their real estate footprints in the Big Apple, only some Am Law 200 and midsized firms are following suit. Cohen went on to say that he thinks most midsize firms will maintain their current square footage, or even reduce their space in the future, rather than further expand.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/Staci-Zaretsky.jpg?w=1080&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Staci Zaretsky\" class=\"wp-image-441281\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/author\/staci-zaretsky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#9cefe8fdfff5dcfdfef3eaf9e8f4f9f0fdebb2fff3f1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/stacizaretsky.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stacizaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@stacizaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/staci-zaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. If Q2 is any indication of what midsized firms are doing, then we should expect midsized firms to continue keeping the same amount of space or becoming more efficient with use of their space. \u2014 Gregg Cohen, principal at real estate firm Cresa, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128714,"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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Staci-Zaretsky-TytDph.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128713","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=128713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}