The complexity of today’s problems calls for members of in-house legal teams to collaborate across disciplinary and structural boundaries to tackle their organization’s most sophisticated issues. They must integrate their individual, specialized expertise in order to deliver high-quality, customized outcomes on high-priority problems. Increasingly, they must also rely on experts in other functions throughout their company, and to become “business partners” with managers and executives. By truly collaborating, a team of professionals is able to create solutions than none could develop alone, no matter how clever or hardworking.
Yet, collaboration is rarely seamless. Think specifically about your experiences collaborating at your current organization when you answer the following questions.
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