Law Firms and Banks Confront Changes to Traditional Office Layouts

Clockwise from left: Sherry Cushman, executive managing director, Cushman & Wakefield’s Legal Services Advisory Group; Paul Garvey, senior director, Cushman & Wakefield, Philadelphia; and Tim Quinn, branch solution sales specialist, NCR Corporation.

PHILADELPHIA, PA AND CLARK, NJ—Demographic and working style changes are creating strong pressure for radical changes in office space buildouts, and these changes are moving rapidly into the legal and financial sectors, according to experts in the design requirements for those professions.

Law firms are seeking new ways to build consensus and affect change to adjust to this evolving reality, according to Sherry Cushman, executive managing director and leader of Cushman & Wakefield’s Legal Sector Advisory Group. Philadelphia law firms are likely to feel the effects of an office space shakeout currently underway in New York, she says.