Speaking to The American Lawyer earlier this month from his office in downtown San Francisco, Morrison & Foerster chair Eric McCrath remarked on the firm’s shifting vision of a lawyer’s office.

As class A real estate commands “top dollar,” especially in the Bay Area, many law firms like Morrison & Foerster are cutting back from the standard 175-square-foot offices of the past, in an effort to bring the firm up to date in the digital, hybrid working era.