Practice Management

These are the stories that you must wonder about.  According to the Dallas Business Journal the Dallas office of the Washington, D.C. based law firm Patton Boggs has leased 114,000 square feet, or 4 and a half stories, of a new class A office space in Uptown Dallas, off downtown.  At $39 per square foot per year, plus electricity and other costs the law firm will pay substantially over $444,000.00 per year to house their attorneys, not counting annual rent increases.  Much of this does not cover interior finishes, furnishings, computer and other equipment and the like.  I say the law firm will have to pay for this, because in reality it will costs their clients this much more.  With cheap tech it is possible send most of these attorneys and staff home and collaborate in other ways, but then you will not feel like you are on top of the World.