Episode 106 - What characteristics make up a successful multidisciplinary team in the legal profession?

CLI Distinguished Fellow, Sarah El-Atm is our guest host for this episode (two of three). Sarah’s 12-month Fellowship explored whether client problems can be better solved by multidisciplinary teams (lawyers and allied professionals).

In this second episode, Sarah identified five key characteristics common to successful high performing multidisciplinary teams in the legal profession. She discusses these in the context of real tangible insights from Hilary Goodier, Partner and Co-Division Head (formerly Partner and Chief Operating Officer) at Ashurst Advance; Katrina Gowans, National Legal Operations Lead at Origin Energy; Mel Scott, Senior Legal Counsel at Megaport; Mick Sheehy, Partner New Law at PwC; Anu Briggs, Head of Capability, Development, and Change at Gilbert + Tobin; Jemima Harris, Legal and Strategic Projects Director at Megaport (formerly Head of Legal Operations & Tech at LOD); and Denise Doyle, Chief Product Officer, Xakia Technologies (formerly Specialist Legal Operations Consultant).

Topics covered in this episode include:

• The five key characteristics that make up successful high performing multidisciplinary teams in the legal profession.
• Why these characteristics work together to help form successful teams.

Additional resources:

• You’ll find additional information of these topics in Sarah’s blog post What characteristics do you need in a successful multidisciplinary team?
• Don’t forget to tune in for the first and third episodes in this three part series, Episode 105 and 107, you’ll find them here.