Morgan Stanley to white-shoe law firms: Get back to the office

Morgan Stanley doesn’t just want its own employees back in the office. It also wants employees of the companies it works with back in the office.

In a memo sent last week, the Wall Street giant’s chief legal officer Eric Grossman urged a slew of white-shoe law firms the company works with to bring their attorneys back for in-person meetings, The Post has confirmed. “I feel the need to sound a warning in light of what I have generally observed about the lack of urgency to return lawyers to the office,” Grossman said in the letter. “I firmly believe that the most productive meetings are those in person, and as we are already largely back in the office at Morgan Stanley, it is now clear to me that a hybrid meeting of live participants and Zoom participants is challenging at best.”