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The pendulum is completely swinging again towards the vast majority of companions’ and associates’ time being in individual, within the workplace.
— Rachel Nonaka, a Washington, D.C.-based recruiter at Macrae, in feedback given to Reuters, regarding the variety of regulation companies which might be boosting their in-office attendance insurance policies for 2026, with four-day attendance necessities spreading throughout the Am Regulation 50. The next companies now require attorneys to work from the workplace 4 days every week: A&O Shearman; Cooley; Covington; Davis Polk; Dechert (junior associates); DLA Piper (company associates); Goodwin; Hogan Lovells; Latham; Paul Weiss; Ropes & Gray; Sidley; Simpson Thacher; Skadden; Vinson & Elkins; Weil Gotshal; WilmerHale; and White & Case.
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