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<b><i>At the Intersection:</i></b> Collaboration: What Lawyers Can Learn from Google

By Pamela Woldow
September 01, 2016

Problem: These days, productive lawyering, successful onboarding of lateral hires, and effective Legal Project Management (LPM) all place a huge premium on effective collaboration, and a recent Harvard Business Review study found that “time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by 50% or more over the last two decades.” But lawyers, because of their autonomous nature and persistent drive for personal achievement, are neither naturally collaborative nor comfortable as team players.

Not only that, to the extent good collaboration builds on positive emotional states ' messy, abstract things like trust, motivation, respect, and supportive interpersonal relationships ' you can count most lawyers out. They don't want to mess with all that touchy-feely stuff, no sir.

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