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How to Fail at Collaboration

We all know that many law firms send mixed messages to their lawyers (and often to their clients, too). They talk the talk, but they don't walk the walk, particularly when it comes to the informal norms and values that define “the way we do things around here.” This opens them up to charges of hypocrisy — or at least insensitivity to the human factors that define law firm success in today's market.

Consider, as a timely example, the legal profession's continuing cry for better collaboration — both between law firm and client, and among firm lawyers in a practice group or on a client team. Also, consider clients that have converged their roster of outside firms to just a few in number, and who now want their firms to collaborate with each other — for the benefit of the client.

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