Welcome to the Law Firm Disrupted, a briefing from Law.com editor Dan Packel that surveys new competitive pressures on law firms and how their managers are coping, plus insights on the tactics and tech employed by would-be disruptors. Have an opinion? Email me here. Want to be alerted to this dispatch in your inbox every Thursday? Sign up here.

So many experts have tossed out so many ideas about the future of the workplace ever since we all fled for our home offices in March 2020. It’s been an illuminating experience to put much of the conventional wisdom to the test, via the New Normal? series that we’ve been rolling out since the beginning of the week.