Category: Firm Culture

Is Your RTO Mandate Worth the Cost?

March 11, 2024
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As we all now know, many law firms that embraced remote work during the pandemic and then made unsuccessful attempts to gently coax their employees back to in-person work are now instituting return-to-office (RTO) “mandates with teeth.”

Firm lawyers often find these mandates mystifying because...

Is Your Firm Culture Inclusive Enough to Accommodate Ramadan?

February 20, 2024
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The concept of “inclusion” often gets flattened into a shorthand for things like the language firms use around gender or sponsoring firm events that do not take place at country clubs — both very important considerations, by the way — but true inclusion means so much more. The time of year is a good time to revisit this striking

Make Disability Inclusion a Priority in 2024

December 11, 2023
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Because workplace culture in many law firms continues to hold on to ableist ideas about who is capable of succeeding as a lawyer, lawyers are far more likely than workers in other professions to hide a disability from their employers and colleagues. This lack of visibility furthers the misconception that lawyers with disabilities can't experience inclusion in law firms, which dissuades...