Anyone with responsibility for looking after small children in either a personal or professional capacity will know that life becomes easier for both the carer and the child once they learn how to share, in particular how to ‘share nicely’. Eventually this develops into a desire to swap as well as share. I currently observe this with my own children’s obsession in trading Match Attax cards (other brands of football cards or stickers are available).

And heading straight into the lazy, simplistic, but true analogy, life is easier for lawyers, too, when we share with each other.