Daily Journal
By: Jack Needham
Adam Bass, CEO and president of Buchalter PC said that the in-person engagement provided by a physical office was “meaningful,” adding that the office’s role in a lawyer “perfecting their craft” at all stages of their career had been underappreciated until the pandemic and the shift to remote work.
“It’s not that it can’t be done remotely, but I think it’s a lot smoother, just works a lot better, when it’s in the office,” he said, adding that this was particularly the case for early career lawyers who could benefit from the knowledge of their senior colleagues.
“For the more senior lawyers it’s collaboration, you know, bouncing complex ideas off each other. I would say, for the associates, I don’t know how you train lawyers, without having some physical connection to them. And then having a physical connection, being in the office, [it could be] participating in a conference call and seeing the way that negotiation goes or working on briefs and getting back feedback.”
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