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What’s happening in corporate America bolsters what the leader of a firm wants to happen in their firm. Sometimes they’ll use that to their advantage.
It doesn’t necessarily show up in the policy manual because it didn’t historically. The same way cultural expectations aren’t always black letter law in a firm’s policy guide, there’s an understanding of what’s expected.

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— Kent Zimmermann, a law firm strategy consultant with the Zeughauser Group, in comments given to the American Lawyer, on law firm attendance expectations going forward in 2025. Although Zimmerman said that most firms would be unlikely to follow their clients’ policies, the possibility for stricter attendance requirements reminiscent of pre-pandemic norms could also arise.
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