Lingering fallout from office attendance policies, as well as heightened demand for tech-savvy professionals, among other factors, may drive an uptick in support staff turnover in Big Law.

Analysts this month already pointed to the rise of artificial intelligence potentially reshaping the hierarchy of lawyers and business professionals. That follows a multiyear trend of nonbilling employees moving into and across firms from the business world to advance pricing and profitability analysis, or even enter the C-suite.