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2019 North American Legal Sector Trends

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CBRE Roundtable: The Legal Workplace in the Era of COVID-19

CBRE Roundtable: The Legal Workplace in the Era of COVID-19

Participants in CBRE’s expert roundtable offered insights into the legal workplace in a COVID-19 environment, including answering some of the “new million-dollar questions” identified by workplace experts, law firm employees and attorneys.
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CBRE Roundtable: Real Estate Market Outlook & the Implications for the Legal Sector

CBRE Roundtable: Real Estate Market Outlook & the Implications for the Legal Sector

CBRE experts provided insight into the latest statistics and micro to macro trends in the major gateway markets.
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The Law Firm Workplace of the Future

The Law Firm Workplace of the Future

In the era of COVID-19, the legal workplace is on the cusp of major transformation. Trends that predate the pandemic have been accelerated by new ways of working and greater cause for change.
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Atlanta

Atlanta

Audrey Frey, Ellen Stern, Jay Dowlen and Emily Neff discuss legal real estate trends for the Atlanta market in 2019 and beyond.
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Los Angeles

Los Angeles

CBRE Law Firm Practice Group members, Lynn Williams, Clay Hammerstein, Stephen Bay and Kevin Bender, discuss legal real estate trends for the Los Angeles Market in 2017 and beyond.
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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

CBRE Vice Chairmen Lou Christopher and Rob Copito as well as Executive Vice President Mark Minich discuss legal real estate trends for the Washington, D.C. market in 2016 and beyond.
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Chicago

Chicago

CBRE Vice Chairmen Nancy Pacher and Todd Lippman discuss legal real estate trends for the Chicago market in 2016 and beyond.
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Top Trends to Watch

Automation

Although still maturing, the rise of automation - most notably artificial intelligence - will significantly impact traditional legal tasks.

Virtual Workplace

Mobile devices, virtual networks, video-conferencing and cloud storage have created a virtual workplace that has changed employee expectations of where and how they work.

Alternative Fee Arrangements

Alternative fee arrangements and clients moving to non-traditional law firms for legal services have placed pressure on the billable-hours pricing model and therefore firm profitability.

Globalization

As companies globalize, they expect outsourced providers such as legal services to do the same, increasing the amount of cross-border expertise law firms need to remain competitive.

Succession-Planning

Millennials are the largest contingent of the national workforce, but the legal profession is aging. Rapidly retiring baby boomers are creating succession-planning challenges for law firms.

Talent

National unemployment is at the lowest level in 16 years and the amount of young professionals choosing law is declining. This is creating intense competition for attracting and retaining skilled talent.

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