Top 10 Biglaw Firm Mandates Four Office Days For Attorneys Each Week
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Biglaw firms may be incredibly busy dodging or capitulating to executive orders from Donald Trump, but they’re still busy thinking about how to enforce their attendance policies amid the constitutional mayhem.
Earlier today, White & Case — a firm that brought in $3,316,735,000 gross revenue in 2024, putting it at No. 9 in the most recent Am Law 100 — announced that starting on June 2, associate and partners alike would have to work from the office four days each week, with anchor days of Monday through Thursday. This change will affect employees in the firm’s Americas region, including Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York, São Paulo, Silicon Valley, and Washington, DC. As noted in the firm’s memo (available in full on the next page), W&C “remain[s] committed to offering flexibility and [is] keeping Fridays outside of the work-from-the-office requirement to reflect our belief in the benefits of hybrid working.”
White & Case now joins the likes of Davis Polk; Latham; Paul Weiss; Ropes & Gray; Simpson Thacher; Skadden; Vinson & Elkins; Weil Gotshal; and WilmerHale in its four-day, in-person attendance policy. Sullivan & Cromwell has taken its attendance policy one step further, requiring attorneys to work from the office five days each week.
Best of luck to associates at White & Case as they adjust to their new lives at the beginning of June, which will be mostly spent at the office.
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