Why law firm Quinn Emanuel does offsite team building on intense international hikes in the world

Last month, more than 250 employees flew to Cosco, Peru, to raise part of the Andes Mountain Series. Lawyers had two options: heavy height for 18 miles across the Salcantay corridor in the Andes Mountains, which reaches a height of more than 15,000 feet, or a journey slightly less than 8.5 miles to 14,000 feet.

“It is intense”, which helps in managing long -distance hiking and bringing them more than 20 years, “says Tegran Juligian, a partner in Queen Emmanuel and co -chair to the practice of litigation in national intellectual property of national monarchy, which helps operate long -distance hiking, and he is bringing them for more than 20 years. “You carry your own bag with your own tent, your sleep bag, your food, and you are responsible for yourself. No one there will do anything for you, unlike your colleagues.”

This tradition began in 1993, when the founder and current president John B. Queen, the loyal trio, 15 legal analysts on a back on Coyote Gulch in Utah. Regardless of a few years during the Covid epidemic, the company has hosted the event every year since then. The journey has become bigger over the years, and the team began to travel internationally in 2008 to some of the most popular and popular walking sites including FAULHORNWEG TRIL in Interlalkin, Switzerland, Fuji San in Tokyo, Japan, and MT. Olympus, in thessaloniki, Greisi.

“This is not an easy rise,” said Stephen Wood, the Sultlt Lake’s office, at the Solt Lake company in the company, which also helps in implementing the event. “They challenge everyone and we have a wide range of people there, collective athletes and those who make an iron heart for fun, for those who have not disappointed in their lives.”

The partners say that the aim of the height is to simulate some of the pressures that legal teams are going through during the trial and the education of employees to tend to each other when things become difficult. It is also a way to make people from various offices across the country in one place to do something really difficult together. “There are all kinds of similarities between putting yourself in a difficult situation and overcoming it, and what happens during litigation,” Golidigian notes.

“There is always something that you cannot control in nature, and there are lessons to learn from those that end up until they are useful in the courtroom later.”

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Going to height is not mandatory, but anyone working in the company is welcome to attend. Almost a quarter of the company’s workforce, or 250 people, goes every year. While many workers pay about $ 1,000 to help cover trips bills such as hiking equipment or staying an additional day after height, the company is covered through the trip. Analysts there are only in the summer are invited to go for free.

Unemployed things have certainly happened: bear confrontations, guard quotes, incendiary temperatures, heavy rains and more. During a trip to Armenia last year, an intense thunderstorm erupted while the team was holding over the tree line and the leaders had to find a way to get hundreds of people out of the mountain as soon as possible. The team called for help and forced to save them by the local population.

The company is doing its best to prepare workers for the dangers of each picnic. After years of people who bring additional elements that they do not need, such as the tractor from the Marinara sauce and boxes of plastic table tools, the company sends a “careful sponsorship” list that has been assembled based on contracts for these trips. Golidigian says that one of the longest increases that the team accomplished was 50 miles in three days in Iceland, which included 25 miles of terrain in one day.

“There is always this Caboose of 10 people wandering a little in their heads, and although they are the ones who spend the most difficult time, they have the most rewarding experience because they do not leave behind, they are not present on the road themselves, and they are with other people who are struggling, and they conclude together in a crucible. And those friendships remain.”