"People don't always come to lawyers in the happiest situation," said W. Thomas McDonough Jr., a Montclair lawyer who has hit on a way to make his clients' office visits more pleasant while meeting a local zoning ordinance at the same time.
Then came school years -- running to and from school meetings, events, conferences, functions, projects while running back to clients, office, work, airports and definitely running to airplanes.
Accenture, a consulting firm whose staff often work at clients' offices, is a case in point.
Some, like World Travel Specialists Group and Hoffman Entertainment, will even place agents in clients' offices.
Executives who have done it recommend a mixture of working from satellite offices, homes and clients' offices.
In the aftermath, Mr. Tripathi says his company destroyed all patient data on mobile devices and temporarily prohibited employees from removing patient data from clients' offices.
As a freelance consultant, I visit many clients' offices and in each I see a corner with donations piled high to send to the refugee centres.
This means working in clients' offices, which can involve travel and staying away from home for three or four nights a week.
But with all but one having survived the attack, they are now even more dispersed, working from homes, clients' offices and drop-in centers in New Jersey, Long Island and Connecticut.
"I physically used to go and work at clients' offices," she says, "where there weren't as many opportunities to network online or share knowledge with groups.
Perhaps, says Mr Bontempo, strategy firms will emerge from the crisis looking more like think-tanks, spreading the best management ideas, without invading clients' offices with armies of billable 20-somethings.
