Major law firms are tightening in-office attendance policies, with many now requiring four days per week firmwide and some imposing stricter standards. Arnold & Porter will require all attorneys and professional staff to be in the office three days each week—Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays—starting in 2026, and will operate in a virtual operating status during the week of Thanksgiving and the final two weeks of the year. A roster of Biglaw firms now mandates four days in-office, while Sullivan & Cromwell requires five days. Readers are asked to submit firm attendance plans by email or text.
"Arnold & Porter - a firm that brought in $1,193,720,000 gross revenue in 2024, putting it at No. 51 on the Am Law 100 - recently announced that come 2026, it would be making "very modest adjustments" to its in-office policy, specifying that all attorneys and professional staff would be expected in the office three days each week, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, during normal business hours."
"Quite a few Biglaw firms are now requiring four days in the office firmwide, including the likes of A&O Shearman; Cooley; Covington; Davis Polk; Dechert (junior associates); DLA Piper (corporate associates); Goodwin; Hogan Lovells; Latham; Paul Weiss; Ropes & Gray; Sidley; Simpson Thacher; Skadden; Vinson & Elkins; Weil Gotshal; WilmerHale; and White & Case. Sullivan & Cromwell has taken its attendance policy one step further, requiring attorneys to work from the office five days each week."
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