The percentage of law professionals who say they have engaged in an office romance—53—is actually slightly higher than the overall survey average of 51%. And they are more likely to have had such a romance than respondents who work in banking (49%) and accounting (45%), but less likely than those who work in retail (62%) or technology (60%).
— Vault Law Editor Nicole Weber, announcing the “highly anticipated” results of the Vault Office Romance Survey. Weber notes that only 28% of lawyers have tried to avoid office romances (compared to 36% of all respondents). Moreover, half of those in the legal industry who responded to the survey didn’t even know if their firms had policies on office relationships, and 40% of them had no idea what their firms would think about office romances.