Crowell & Moring has joined a growing number of law firms that have filed lawsuits against their landlords seeking rent abatement over disruptions to the use of their office space during the height of the pandemic due to local COVID-19 emergency orders in place.

The firm filed the suit in late March against the landlord of its Washington, D.C., office to recoup $30 million that it claims it was not entitled to pay between 2020 to 2021 due to local COVID-19 emergency orders in place that prevented the firm from using its space.