{"id":132536,"date":"2025-09-03T17:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/03\/law-firm-leases-are-going-up-up-up-thanks-to-very-office-centric-attendance-mandates\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:05:24","slug":"law-firm-leases-are-going-up-up-up-thanks-to-very-office-centric-attendance-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/03\/law-firm-leases-are-going-up-up-up-thanks-to-very-office-centric-attendance-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Firm Leases Are Going Up, Up, Up Thanks To \u2018Very Office-Centric\u2019 Attendance Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is impossible to know if this pace will continue in the second half of the year, but if it does, then 2025 will be the fourth year in a row that U.S. law firm leasing sets an annual record.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>an excerpt from Cushman & Wakefield Legal Sector Advisory Group\u2019s Legal Sector Q2 Leasing Trends report<\/a>, which revealed that law firm leasing activity saw the \u201cstrongest start to a year on record\u201d after reaching 10 million square feet during the first half of 2025. David Smith, head of Americas insights at Cushman & Wakefield\u2019s Global Think Tank, went on to say that \u201c[t]he momentum continues for law firms,\u201d with firms being \u201cvery office-centric\u201d thanks to new attendance mandates that place lawyers in the office three-to-four days each week.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Law Firm Leases Are Going Up, Up, Up Thanks To \u2018Very Office-Centric\u2019 Attendance Mandates<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is impossible to know if this pace will continue in the second half of the year, but if it does, then 2025 will be the fourth year in a row that U.S. law firm leasing sets an annual record.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>an excerpt from Cushman & Wakefield Legal Sector Advisory Group\u2019s Legal Sector Q2 Leasing Trends report<\/a>, which revealed that law firm leasing activity saw the \u201cstrongest start to a year on record\u201d after reaching 10 million square feet during the first half of 2025. David Smith, head of Americas insights at Cushman & Wakefield\u2019s Global Think Tank, went on to say that \u201c[t]he momentum continues for law firms,\u201d with firms being \u201cvery office-centric\u201d thanks to new attendance mandates that place lawyers in the office three-to-four days each week.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. It is impossible to know if this pace will continue in the second half of the year, but if it does, then 2025 will be the fourth year in a row that U.S. law firm leasing sets an annual record. \u2014 an excerpt from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132497,"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-132536","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\/09\/Staci-Zaretsky-WO9DdP.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132536","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=132536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}