It’s fairly scorching out this summer time, and Biglaw companies suppose they’ve bought the proper resolution for beating the warmth: by asserting obligatory workplace attendance insurance policies. Which agency is the newest to ask attorneys to get pleasure from their supercool workplace air con 4 days every week?
It’s Covington & Burling. The agency — which introduced in $1,747,129,000 gross income in 2024, placing it at No. 31 on the Am Regulation 100 — just lately determined to vary up its attendance coverage to mandate 4 days spent within the workplace every week, together with these working in its London workplace. Law.com has some further particulars, together with a late summer time work perk:
The agency’s attorneys are actually anticipated to be within the workplace Monday by means of Thursday, however can work remotely on Friday, based on a number of sources with data of the matter. …
To ease the shift, the agency has informed its employees that they’ll have as much as two weeks working remotely in August, however that is topic to relevant insurance policies regarding distant working, together with that it can not influence availability.
Covington now joins the likes of Davis Polk; Latham; Paul Weiss; Ropes & Gray; Simpson Thacher; Skadden; Vinson & Elkins; Weil Gotshal; WilmerHale; White & Case; Sidley; Hogan Lovells; and A&O Shearman in its four-day, in-person attendance coverage. Sullivan & Cromwell has taken its attendance coverage one step additional, requiring attorneys to work from the workplace 5 days every week.
Better of luck to everybody at Covington as they modify to their new lives, which will likely be principally spent on the workplace.
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Covington Switches to 4-Day In-Office Week, Offers August WFH [Law.com]
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