A good working relationship between the attorneys is essential for the Collaborative Practice process to work. Further, the professionals working with the parties are sincere in their concern about making the divorce less contentious. There are differing values between taking an adversarial litigation approach and that of a collaborative advisor. Unless the lawyers can rely on one another’s representations, trusting there is full disclosure, there is insufficient protection against dishonesty — and trust is key. A collaborative lawyer must withdraw from representing a dishonest client. Thus, each lawyer must know, before signing on to the formal Collaborative Practice process (involving disqualification of the lawyers from representation in court if the Collaborative Practice process fails) the other lawyer will be engaged in the same way. Moreover, collaboration requires special skills from the lawyers – skills in guiding negotiations, and managing conflict. These are often counter to the skills in the adversarial approach where each side is trying to maximize the financial outcome. Taking this approach makes it tough for a non-collaboratively trained attorney to work effectively in a Collaborative Practice team negotiation.