{"id":136415,"date":"2025-11-06T10:25:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/06\/partners-want-associates-in-the-office-but-not-themselves\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:25:45","slug":"partners-want-associates-in-the-office-but-not-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/06\/partners-want-associates-in-the-office-but-not-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Partners Want Associates In The Office \u2014 But Not Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Everything I\u2019ve heard is that it\u2019s still quite a challenge getting people in, even with these mandates<\/strong>. We\u2019re starting to come to a point where firms have to put their money where their mouth is and penalize people if they don\u2019t come in. That becomes a risky proposition when you\u2019re in a world where people have lots of choices and not every firm requires the same mandate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i><\/strong><\/em>Jeffrey Lowe, a recruiter with CenterPeak, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning Biglaw firms increasing attendance mandates<\/a> but still having difficulty in getting attorneys to abide by those in-office facetime requirements. Partners have reportedly been especially have resistant to these attendance policies.<\/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 Partners Want Associates In The Office \u2014 But Not Themselves<\/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

Everything I\u2019ve heard is that it\u2019s still quite a challenge getting people in, even with these mandates<\/strong>. We\u2019re starting to come to a point where firms have to put their money where their mouth is and penalize people if they don\u2019t come in. That becomes a risky proposition when you\u2019re in a world where people have lots of choices and not every firm requires the same mandate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i><\/strong><\/em>Jeffrey Lowe, a recruiter with CenterPeak, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning Biglaw firms increasing attendance mandates<\/a> but still having difficulty in getting attorneys to abide by those in-office facetime requirements. Partners have reportedly been especially have resistant to these attendance policies.<\/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. Everything I\u2019ve heard is that it\u2019s still quite a challenge getting people in, even with these mandates. We\u2019re starting to come to a point where firms have to put their money where their mouth is and penalize people if they don\u2019t come in. That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136363,"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-136415","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\/11\/Staci-Zaretsky-DhWXM5.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136415","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=136415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}