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Sustainable Profitability in a Disrupted Legal Market, Second Edition
Publication date: Oct 2025
This Special Report presents practical strategies to help law firms protect and sustain their profitability as shifting client expectations, advanced technology and global influences challenge many of the old paradigms in law firm management.
Authors Norman Clark and Lisa Walker Johnson demonstrate that, although traditional factors influencing profitability remain valid, they must be managed in new ways to meet new financial realities.
This report highlights what sustainable profitability really means for the 2020s and beyond, and how any law firm can achieve it.
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Developing Talent and Managing People in the Family Enterprise
Publication date: Mar 2026
Developing Talent and Managing People in the Family Enterprise explores the unique people-related challenges that families and their advisers face, bringing together experts in the field, including family enterprise advisers, family office investment specialists, next generation advisers, lawyers, cybersecurity and technology experts and family members themselves.
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Oil and Gas
A Practical Handbook, Fourth Edition
Publication date: Jan 2026
Oil and gas are key drivers of the world economy and the technical, commercial and legal applications which support their exploitation are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
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Preparing Lawyers for Technology Transformation
The Exponential Age Mindset
Publication date: Mar 2026
The growth in technology is forecast to increase exponentially going forward. What this means for business is that technology will radically change the way we work, and that constant change will become the norm.
In law, this change has not taken effect as radically as in other areas of business, but it is a matter of when, not if. This book identifies nine mindset attributes that are fundamental to success – to individuals, their teams, and their organizations.
As AI adoption increases, there has been less focus on the human-centred skills that are needed to thrive. Preparing Lawyers for Technology Transformation: The Exponential Age Mindset focuses on how legal departments and law firms can ensure their employees have the mindset and the skill set to optimize this transformation. Increasingly, GCs are seeing that engaging the entire legal department is key to success, and that many non-lawyer roles are going to be even more central as tech and GenAI becomes more prevalent.
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Islamic Finance
A Practical Guide, Third Edition
Publication date: Aug 2025
This unique title is essential reading whether you are already engaged in Islamic financing transactions or interested in understanding the Islamic finance market and the structures underpinning the world's fastest-growing finance sector.
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The Outperformers: Lessons from Top Law Firm Leaders
Publication date: May 2026
As competition for clients and talent intensifies, The Outperformers reveals what it really takes to win in today’s rapidly changing legal marketplace. Through candid, first-hand accounts from top law firm leaders, the book explores how visionary management, detailed planning, consensus-building and disciplined execution have driven extraordinary performance and enduring success compared to their competition.
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Fundamental Skills for Modern Lawyers
Publication date: Jun 2026
Fundamental Skills for Modern Lawyers is a practical, insight-driven guide to the capabilities that increasingly define successful legal careers.
From emotional intelligence, decision-making and delegation, to networking and change management through a distinctly legal lens, it also looks ahead to the evolving role of the lawyer, and how neurodiversity and technological developments can all play to the lawyer’s human strengths.
Written for lawyers at every stage of their career, this new co-publication with CILEX bridges the gap between legal expertise and human insight – helping practitioners become not just good lawyers, but trusted advisers and effective leaders.
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Decision Making in Law Firms
Publication date: Apr 2026
While 72 percent of leaders believe decisions drive business results, only 20 percent trust their decision-making processes. This gap is particularly acute in partnership structures where traditional hierarchical decision-making models don't apply.
Decision Making in Law Firms addresses the disconnect between how law firms say they make decisions and how decisions actually happen. It builds a comprehensive framework covering individual psychology, partnership dynamics, consensus-building, strategic architecture, and operational timing.
Iryna Nikitina exposes the mythology surrounding law firm decision-making, revealing how informal alliances, market pressures, and individual incentives trump formal procedures. Decision Making in Law Firms provides law firm partners with practical tools for understanding and improving their decision-making processes, from individual cognitive patterns to partnership consensus to strategic transformation.
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Building a Business Development Culture and Strategy
A Management Guide for Law Firm Leadership
Publication date: Jul 2026
What does it take to develop and sustain a culture that values marketing, business development, and client care as shared responsibilities across the firm? Drawing on decades of experience advising law firm leaders, chief marketing officers, and partners, Building a Business Development Culture and Strategy provides senior management and practice leaders with actionable strategies for integrating business development into their organization's fabric.
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Wind:
Projects and Transactions, Second Edition
Publication date: Aug 2026
This timely new edition of Wind: Projects and Transactions explores how the sector has changed drastically over the past 10 years. The expert contributors to this edition have been involved on the frontline, as architects of many of the changes or as advisers guiding clients through the increasingly diverse areas encountered in the development of wind projects. Project and transactional aspects of the industry are comprehensively analysed, to ensure readers are able to understand the market, what has changed and where further evolution in the existing arrangements is expected or needed. Topics include the legal, industry and regulatory frameworks involved; consenting; insurance; project financing; power purchase agreements and subsidy arrangements; and geographical analyses that provide a regional overview of the key differences in wind energy developments on different continents.
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The Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Law
Publication date: Jul 2026
Artificial intelligence is reshaping legal practice but its adoption brings significant challenges. The Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Law examines AI risks in law, offering a clear-eyed analysis of risks across five domains – privacy, reliability, operational, cultural, and intellectual property. Drawing upon candid insights from over 30 legal professionals and technologists across jurisdictions and roles (including users and solutions providers), the book reflects perspectives from every stage of the AI product life cycle. Beyond technological concerns, Matthew Seet and An-Ru Stevens address issues such as complacency, the impact on legal training, and the sustainability of the billable hour model. With peer-validated strategies, this book enables legal professionals to confidently navigate AI adoption while upholding ethical and professional obligations. For those grappling with stalled pilots or uncertainty, the book provides practical guidance to build literacy, manage risk, and make informed decisions in a fast-evolving landscape.
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Sufficiency of Disclosure in Patent Applications
A Global Guide
Publication date: Oct 2026
Patentees routinely file applications in multiple countries across the globe. Yet, drafting and prosecuting global patent portfolios can be challenging, particularly as local patent laws vary significantly with respect to what disclosure in a patent application is necessary to support and enable the claimed invention.
Designed for patent practitioners who deal with software, electrical, biological, pharmaceutical, mechanical or chemical patent work, this book is an essential reference to anyone seeking international patent protection.
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Shipping Finance:
A Practical Handbook, Fifth Edition
Publication date: Dec 2026
Now in its fifth edition, and containing over 720 pages of fully revised and updated material, Shipping Finance includes an analysis of ship mortgage terms and conditions, and mortgagee rights across the main maritime jurisdictions.
Shipping Finance: A Practical Handbook, Fifth Edition is an essential reference tool for anyone involved in shipping finance including financiers, lawyers and shipowners.
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Private Trust Companies
A Handbook for Advisers, Second Edition
Publication date: Jul 2023
Private trust companies play an increasingly important role in the wealth structures of many ultra-wealthy families, offering a high degree of control and flexibility in the administration of a family’s trusts and the management of trust assets. Featuring chapters written by leading practitioners from firms including Appleby, McDermott, Will & Emery and Squire Patton Boggs, this edition fully explores the legal, regulatory and practical dimensions of forming and operating a private trust company.
This title's content shines a light on organisational and operational issues such as designing a private trust company’s ownership structure, implementing proper internal controls, outsourcing services and working with professional advisers. Important matters like coordinating with the family office, communicating with family, protecting privacy and handling disputes involving private trust companies are also tackled.
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Talent in the Legal Profession
How to Attract, Retain and Engage Top Talent
Publication date: Apr 2024
It makes good business, financial, and reputational sense to keep your best performing staff, but with the most extraordinary recruitment market in 40 years, now more than ever human capital needs nurturing if you believe that people are your greatest asset. The pandemic changed the way we work forever, and we need to reflect on what we learned during that time. What are the true causes of attrition? How do we understand what it is staff need in order to retain them in the business?
Talent in the Legal Profession: How to Attract, Retain and Engage Top Talent aims to answer these and many more questions. Looking at the perspectives of changing attitudes to the profession, an increasingly dynamic and diverse workforce, the impact of technology, and alternative forms of compensation, and how to future-proof the talent that already exists in your organization, the book is essential reading for anyone managing a legal team.
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Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data
Publication date: Apr 2024
Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data, edited by Olga V. Mack, Humira Noorestani, and MbaMemme Onwudiwe, takes readers on a journey into the heart of legal innovation, offering an unmissable opportunity to future-proof your legal expertize. The book combines the perfect blend of AI's cutting-edge capabilities with the nuanced world of legal practice, delivered through the innovative LegalOps 2.0 framework.
Combining both theory and practice from industry leaders, insight is provided from legal tech, in-house legal departments, law firms, and academia. Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data is your guide to navigating the fast-evolving landscape of AI in the legal field with step-by-step practical guides on how to do so.
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Online Dispute Resolution
Law’s Future in the Digital Age
Publication date: Sep 2025
A worldwide revolution in dispute resolution is unfolding. Public justice systems are turning to offer fair access to a fundamental human right: justice online.
Online Dispute Resolution looks at this fundamental change that the digital revolution has brought and will bring to the provision of legal services.
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Oil and Gas
A Practical Handbook, Fourth Edition
Publication date: Jan 2026
Oil and gas are key drivers of the world economy and the technical, commercial and legal applications which support their exploitation are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
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