The traditional big law model is dead, according to Bryce Arrowood, who co-founded a law firm called Clearspire trying to buck the old-school tradition. The District-based company allows its legal staff to work primarily from home, an approach Arrowood says means happier, more effective lawyers with normal lives. How does your firm work without a traditional office?
It’s kind of what I’d call a hub and spoke system. We don’t have everyone working exclusively from their home, but we realized that in a knowledge-based economy … you don’t need to be working in a brick-and-mortar structure day in and day out. There are times when you need to work with your co-workers and meet your clients face to face, so we do have offices in metropolitan markets, but most of the time our attorneys are working in home offices.
