Apparently, primal competitive instincts prevent male lawyers from getting along in the workplace:
“Considering why male friendships can seem stronger among working class men, the professor at the Maryland School of Social Work said: ‘There seems to be less rivalry among middle and lower class men than among upper class men who are apt to be in law firms …and competing with each other to go even higher up'”
Read: Lawyer friendships suffer as men see each other as rivals at GlobalLegalPost