For years this law firm has sent hundreds on multi-day backpacking trips: ‘There’s nobody out there who is going to do anything for you, other than your colleagues’

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For more than 30 years, law firm Quinn Emanuel has hosted company offsites in some of the most remote locations across the globe. But they’re the farthest thing from a vacation. These annual hiking trips are grueling sometimes multi-day rituals meant to build camaraderie and put legal teams to the test.

“It’s intense,” says Tigran Guledjian, partner at Quinn Emanuel and co-chair of the firm’s national intellectual property litigation practice. He helps run the hikes...