Today’s law firm environment is rapidly changing.
In general facilities and the workplace are constantly transitioning to support the business realities of the next millennium.
Almost all successful law firms are put into practice strategies that improve today’s work environment while anticipating the challenges of the future.
- Flexibility is the motto.
Until now, law firms have been focused on efficiency - doing more for less. In the future, we believe that, we will need to focus on effectiveness - getting the job done better, re-thinking the problem. Our job in design is to completely understand how the lawyers work, and to internalize a specific law firm’s culture and goals for the project.
Often, the primary goal is improving the bottom line, and that is most effectively handled by understanding the specifics of how a firm works, how paper moves through an organization, what is important in recruiting, and by paying special attention to the rainmakers.
For example, smaller partner offices often have very little impact on occupancy costs, and quite a negative impact on a lot of attorneys’ daily life.
Representative List of Approaches
A. Building-Related Issues
1. Select the right building footprint to match the law firm program
2. Investigate larger, lower floors for support functions
3. Off-site firmwide and large litigation functions to a less expensive location
4. Analyze design issues with lease agreement in mind (cost, duration, furniture and demountable construction systems).
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