The bar creates a hospitable climate for such discourse. The collegiality within the bar is easily perceived and embraced. Check your ego at the door, instructed Quincy Jones at the various multiartist-recording sessions he produced. Bar members tend to agree. It is obviously important to the bar s well-being that a courteous climate continue.
Disputes arise midstream during ongoing business relationships.
The more quickly such disputes are resolved, the better, because communication is too important to be impeded or interrupted. You cannot resolve a problem with opposing counsel if you can t talk to the person. But there is another reason to maintain collegial civility beyond keeping open the lines of communication. Working alongside opposing counsel can modify the appraisal of each for the other s position and helps welcome both sides into the resolution tent. Our clients are as put off as anyone is when conditions cause participants to squabble over personalities, like relatives sharing a winning lottery ticket.