Category: Teamwork
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Susan Bryant, “Collaboration in Law Practice: A Satisfying and Productive Process for a Diverse Profession”
This article examines collaboration among lawyers and argues that lawyers need a new set of skills and perspectives to collaborate more effectively. Collaboration is a process that involves shared decision-making by fellow collaborators, which allows for the development of ideas, leading to collective knowledge. Participatory decision-making models, like collaboration, increase worker satisfaction by relieving the…
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Janet Weinstein et al, “Teaching Teamwork to Law Students”
This article sets out the rationale for teaching teamwork. The authors analyzed survey results they collected from their interdisciplinary classes (law and another discipline) that required teamwork in medicine and social work. This paper is helpful for clinicians in inter- or multi-disiplinary settings. It includes suggestions for how to improve teamwork, some teamwork theory, and…
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Neil Hamilton & Lisa Montpetit Brabbit, “Fostering Professionalism through Mentoring”
This article mentor relationships as fostering professionalism. Notably, literature often defines the two as distinct principles. The authors note that “a mentor in the legal profession is a person who helps a lawyer (or law student) develop professionally both in internalizing the principles of professionalism and in achieving the protege’s personal professional goals” (106). The…