GrayRobinson partner replaces desk with treadmill to keep active at work

Over ten lawyers in the Tampa office of GrayRobinson have stopped using desks in the traditional way and are using lap desks and standing desks with the old desk - in one case - relegated to the role of storage container.

06 March 2015

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Partner Richard Blau, litigation specialist and chair of the firm's Alcohol Beverage and Food Department, tends to walk on his treadmill when in the office, sometimes searching for documents in the storage area that used to function as his desk. Speaking of his bespoke arrangements, he said: 'I’m constantly moving, so I feel like my body is more acclimated to the way it should be and not the stationary way I had been operating for quite some time.'

Hydraulic

Meanwhile, in another part of the office, fellow partner, patent attorney and former software engineer, Woody Pollack has got rid of his desk altogether and rigged up a hydraulic table which can be raised and lowered, in order to enable him to stand at those times when his lower back problems need a change of posture.

Ingenuity

The Tampa office is one of 12 in GrayRobinson's 300-lawyer Florida base. The firm says it has invented a better brand of law firm by counting 'creativity as a hallmark characteristic and insisting on ingenuity and innovation'. Source: ABA and GrayRobinson