For this issue's "Common Ground" column, Atlanta Associate Jonathan Stuart, a commercial/business litigation associate, spoke with Vivien Peaden, an of counsel specializing in data privacy, security, and technology transactions, about how she finds common ground with her colleagues.
Jonathan and Vivien's conversation demonstrates the importance of getting to know your colleagues, investing time and resources in them, and building meaningful relationships with them. We all have interesting stories and can find common ground with colleagues who, on the surface, appear quite different in both appearance and practice area. A great path to discovering those commonalities is to invest 30 minutes to an hour in getting to know your colleagues during lunch time. After all, we all have to eat; but we all do not have to eat alone.