[M]ost clients don’t care if their outside lawyers are working from the Moon.
— Legal consultant Jordan Furlong of Law21, in response to a question of whether in-house clients care if their outside counsel work in an office during Law.com’s recent #IsTheCommuteWorthIt Twitter chat. Furlong elaborated, stating where the work is done really doesn’t matter, because “in-house counsel care about results, costs, reliability, business/industry awareness, ease of communication, and DEI, in approximately that order.”
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Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.