A teleworking policy developed by lawyers in the city’s Law Department during the final year of the de Blasio administration was scrapped by Eric Adams days after he became mayor, contributing to a massive exodus from the agency and compromising the department’s ability to carry out its mission.
According to a former law department lawyer and another still with the department, many in the department believe that allowing lawyers to work from home one or two days a week would have helped stem a tide of departures that is making it harder for those who remain to adequately represent the city in often complex and time-consuming legal matters and litigation.
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