Reed Smith has become the latest firm to direct its attention to the evolving expectations of its younger lawyers, rolling out a new suite of initiatives for associates that includes an app-based feedback process, opportunities to temporarily work in different offices around the globe and a ‘ramp-up’ programme for lawyers returning from leave.

According to the firm’s global head of legal personnel, Casey Ryan, the overhaul wasn’t motivated by a specific focus on millennials, but rather “an acknowledgment that there are some creative and inventive ways to do things differently”.

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