Us ladies have all heard the adage that caused us to run barefoot from the kitchen to up and burn our bras in the street—that the woman’s place is in the home. Well, maybe as a sign of the times the adage should be updated to—the woman’s place is in the home office! And maybe the home office or remote office is exactly what the legal profession needs to solve its longstanding issue with retaining women and promoting women into equity partnership roles.

Pre-pandemic, women lawyers would often feel deterred from pursuing their legal careers and paths to partnership or in-house counsel roles because they lacked flexibility within the profession, experienced burnout, were overlooked, or may not have been given equal opportunities for advancement.