One cost as well as benefit is the social nature of the practice. Because we work as a team, we have to spend time getting to know each other and learning to work well together. Good teams do not just happen, they are the result of a lot of hard work. On the other hand, the greater sense of community, of establishing strong relationships with other Collaboartive Professionals, can be extremely rewarding. The work can be more difficult while at the same time less stressful. It can be more difficult to help clients talk to each other effectively than to simply talk for them, but when the clients own the outcome, there is not the pressure on the professionals to obtain the result for the clients. Many Collaborative Attorneys in particular find the work much more satisfying than litigation because it feels more constructive and less destructive, and because their clients tend to have higher satisfaction levels with solutions they have had a greater hand in crafting.