Forthcoming 2012 • ISBN: 978-1-59460-591-8
Tags: Legal Profession
This concise, practical book is designed to help legal professionals develop the skills needed to function in complex and diverse legal settings in which they must work with others to achieve both individual and collective goals. Using a wide variety of legal contexts as examples, the book helps readers to maximize the benefits of working in a small group or team, while minimizing the problems they experience. Incorporating the best contemporary research, this innovative book is designed to be used as a supplemental text in a variety of law school courses: from doctrinal courses, in which small groups or team projects facilitate learning, to clinical or legal writing courses, in which students are expected to collaborate to produce high quality work.