Working Remotely is on the Rise

Increasingly, it's folly to expect to find attorneys at their desks. A 2010 American Bar Association survey found that 71 percent of the respondents sometimes work from hotels, cafés, their homes, and even libraries. And when they toil away from the office, attorneys are doing more online legal research on their computers, laptops, or smartphones. Thirty-five percent regularly conduct research from home, and 5 percent say they sneak it in while traveling or commuting. But working remotely hasn't replaced the office completely for most legal practitioners: Less than 1 percent said they never report in to the firm.

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