{"id":161411,"date":"2026-08-25T03:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/25\/biglaws-three-day-office-week-is-going-out-of-style\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T03:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:40:35","slug":"biglaws-three-day-office-week-is-going-out-of-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/25\/biglaws-three-day-office-week-is-going-out-of-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw\u2019s Three-Day Office Week Is Going Out Of Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Connecting in-person with our clients and our colleagues is a core value of our firm\u2019s culture. Our policy that attorneys and staff are either connecting in person with our clients, representing our clients in court or in business meetings, or otherwise being in the office four days a week is one facet of this core value.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> Matthew A. Taylor<\/a>, chairman and CEO at Duane Morris, in comments reported by the ABA Journal<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s decision to increase its in-office expectation for attorneys from three days a week to four. Duane Morris is the latest Am Law firm to tighten its attendance policy, joining Goodwin Procter, Haynes and Boone, Reed Smith, White & Case, and WilmerHale in requiring four days of in-person work each week.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is 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 Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Biglaw\u2019s Three-Day Office Week Is Going Out Of Style<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Connecting in-person with our clients and our colleagues is a core value of our firm\u2019s culture. Our policy that attorneys and staff are either connecting in person with our clients, representing our clients in court or in business meetings, or otherwise being in the office four days a week is one facet of this core value.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> Matthew A. Taylor<\/a>, chairman and CEO at Duane Morris, in comments reported by the ABA Journal<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s decision to increase its in-office expectation for attorneys from three days a week to four. Duane Morris is the latest Am Law firm to tighten its attendance policy, joining Goodwin Procter, Haynes and Boone, Reed Smith, White & Case, and WilmerHale in requiring four days of in-person work each week.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is 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 Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. Connecting in-person with our clients and our colleagues is a core value of our firm\u2019s culture. Our policy that attorneys and staff are either connecting in person with our clients, representing our clients in court or in business meetings, or otherwise being in the office […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161373,"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-161411","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\/2026\/08\/Staci-Zaretsky-gU0EQt.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161411","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=161411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}