{"id":136994,"date":"2025-11-17T15:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/17\/four-day-attendance-mandates-meet-reality-partners-hope-associates-show-up-but-arent-holding-their-breath\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:09:06","slug":"four-day-attendance-mandates-meet-reality-partners-hope-associates-show-up-but-arent-holding-their-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/17\/four-day-attendance-mandates-meet-reality-partners-hope-associates-show-up-but-arent-holding-their-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-Day Attendance Mandates Meet Reality: Partners Hope Associates Show Up, But Aren\u2019t Holding Their Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I continue to believe that firms requesting four days in-office aren\u2019t really expecting it or are likely to achieve it. But it\u2019s the hope that, \u2018The more days we ask for, the more days they\u2019re likely to show up.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Jeffrey Lowe<\/a>, recruiting firm CenterPeak\u2019s market president of Washington, D.C., in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, concerning whether Biglaw firms will become \u201cmore rigid\u201d on their four-day office attendance requirements. The following firms now require attorneys to work from the office four days each week:\u00a0A&O Shearman<\/a>;\u00a0Cooley<\/a>;\u00a0Covington<\/a>;\u00a0Davis Polk<\/a>;\u00a0Dechert<\/a>\u00a0(junior associates);\u00a0DLA Piper<\/a>\u00a0(corporate associates);\u00a0Goodwin<\/a>;\u00a0Hogan Lovells<\/a>;\u00a0Latham<\/a>;\u00a0Paul Weiss<\/a>;\u00a0Ropes & Gray<\/a>;\u00a0Sidley<\/a>;\u00a0Simpson Thacher<\/a>;\u00a0Skadden<\/a>;\u00a0Vinson & Elkins<\/a>;\u00a0Weil Gotshal<\/a>;\u00a0WilmerHale<\/a>; and\u00a0White & Case<\/a>.\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 Four-Day Attendance Mandates Meet Reality: Partners Hope Associates Show Up, But Aren\u2019t Holding Their Breath<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

I continue to believe that firms requesting four days in-office aren\u2019t really expecting it or are likely to achieve it. But it\u2019s the hope that, \u2018The more days we ask for, the more days they\u2019re likely to show up.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Jeffrey Lowe<\/a>, recruiting firm CenterPeak\u2019s market president of Washington, D.C., in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, concerning whether Biglaw firms will become \u201cmore rigid\u201d on their four-day office attendance requirements. The following firms now require attorneys to work from the office four days each week:\u00a0A&O Shearman<\/a>;\u00a0Cooley<\/a>;\u00a0Covington<\/a>;\u00a0Davis Polk<\/a>;\u00a0Dechert<\/a>\u00a0(junior associates);\u00a0DLA Piper<\/a>\u00a0(corporate associates);\u00a0Goodwin<\/a>;\u00a0Hogan Lovells<\/a>;\u00a0Latham<\/a>;\u00a0Paul Weiss<\/a>;\u00a0Ropes & Gray<\/a>;\u00a0Sidley<\/a>;\u00a0Simpson Thacher<\/a>;\u00a0Skadden<\/a>;\u00a0Vinson & Elkins<\/a>;\u00a0Weil Gotshal<\/a>;\u00a0WilmerHale<\/a>; and\u00a0White & Case<\/a>.\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 Four-Day Attendance Mandates Meet Reality: Partners Hope Associates Show Up, But Aren\u2019t Holding Their Breath<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I continue to believe that firms requesting four days in-office aren\u2019t really expecting it or are likely to achieve it. But it\u2019s the hope that, \u2018The more days we ask for, the more days they\u2019re likely to show up.\u2019 \u2014 Jeffrey Lowe, recruiting firm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136995,"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-136994","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-BJDsfu.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136994","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=136994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}