Biglaw’s Return-to-Office Trend: Why 4 Days a Week Is the New Standard in 2025

Biglaw’s Return-to-Office Trend: Why 4 Days a Week Is the New Standard in 2025

The Post-COVID Office Mandate Is Here—And It’s Stricter Than You Think It’s remarkable how dramatically workplace norms have shifted over the past five years. In 2019, the idea of spending just four days in the office might have signaled a long-overdue shift toward real work-life balance in Biglaw. Fast forward to 2025, however, and that same policy now feels like a crackdown. After years of pandemic-induced remote and hybrid flexibility, law fi…