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Office Snapshot: McGlinchey Stafford’s Baton Rouge Move
Read Time: 1 minZelma Murray Frederick, Baton Rouge Office Managing Member, was interviewed by LAW360 Pulse in an article published on May 22, 2025. She discusses the recent move to a new office space and how she hopes it will impact office culture.
“Almost everyone is in the office, but in a post-COVID-19 world, we learned that we can all flex between home, travel and work,” she said. “While the majority of our attorneys are in every day, we’ve transitioned in a sense. Everyone has laptops if they need to work from home for a day or two, and in south Louisiana, we get hurricanes and other weather events, so if there’s something keeping people off the roads, we used to lose a day of work, whereas now we’ve adapted to having more flexibility with how we work.”
“We have a wellness room and landing spaces for people who might just need to pop into the office to take a call or send a few emails between meetings, but in the future, if we grow, we can convert those spaces into offices and adapt if need be,” she said. “We tried to imagine the space giving us options if our headcount swells a little bit, which we hope it will.”
“It’s less ‘I’m a partner and you’re an associate,’ and everything’s a lot more equal in that regard,” she said. “What we found already is that we cross-pollinate more because we’re seeing each other more because we prioritized maximizing the space. We’ve also been working on going more paperless, which sounds like not a big deal, but it can be big for attorneys, who have transitioned from all paper all the time to being more flexible in that regard.”