The Compleat Lawyer , Spring 1996, Vol. She has developed a study on telecommuting, sponsored by the ABA Young Lawyers Division Women in the Profession Committee, with the goal of formulating a model telecommuting policy for legal employers. Modern day lawyers conduct much of their work, both within and outside their offices, by telephone and e-mail. They bring law libraries and their office files to the courtroom, the deposition table, and the negotiating table on portable computers. Further, they bring reading or writing assignments home at night.
Lawyers have all kinds of reasons to be out of the office, and everyone lives with that.
But if a lawyer wants to replace office time with work at home, suddenly people think the whole foundation of collective effort is undermined. I'm hard pressed to think of a profession more suited to telecommuting than the legal profession. For some lawyers, the option of telecommuting may mean the difference between practicing law and not practicing law. Such lawyers include lawyers with disabilities and lawyers with child or other dependent care responsibilities who would not practice without the option to telecommute. Productivity Increases Telecommuting can increase productivity by increasing the number of hours worked.