My friend Donella Meadows, who started an intentional community in Vermont many years ago, once said: “Living in community is neither as good nor as bad as you might think”. The same can be said about working in teams.
Unless you really do practise law alone, you are likely to be part of a team at least some of the time. Teams are the basic building blocks of how work gets done in the law. If a team functions well, the outcomes will be significantly better than if a team is under functioning and lacking focus. Sadly, not all teams are created equally and frequently teams function less than optimally.