There is no ‘I’ in "teamwork," but there is a "me" and a "we." When talking about building an effective managing partner and administrator team, the trick is to cultivate the "we" and eliminate the "me."

In 2010, John Michalik, the former executive director of the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA), undertook a research project that was targeted toward identifying the important role that managing partners and administrators play in making law firms successful.