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Law Offices: How to Do Relocation Right
Howard Ecker | September 2014
ABA
The law office style that was prevalent many decades ago is no longer relevant. Gone are the days of large law libraries, mountains of paper files, and an assistant for each attorney. Recent technological advances are going to take this even further, as firms transform older, inefficient offices to well-planned work environments, or move to new space. Firms that are doing it right —whether large or small, global or local—not…
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