To Innovate or Not to Innovate: A Blueprint for the Law Firm of the Future

This book will show you how to reinvent yourself to create a culture that encourages and spawns innovation at every level, both on the micro and macro levels. It leads you through the creation of the infrastructure that is necessary to encourage creativity and that is unique to law firms.

Energy Storage: Legal and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities

Energy storage is a key trend in the electricity industry across the globe, with one recent analysis predicting 942GW of storage (excluding pumped storage) will be developed by 2040.

This Special Report provides an overview of the key issues in relation to the development of storage projects, including:

• The main technologies
• Regulatory arrangements
• Revenue streams and
• Contracting arrangements

and covers the key policy, commercial and legal principles that underpin this developing sector.

Pitching for Lawyers: Using Marketing Communications Techniques to Improve your Win Ratio

This unmissable report will give you a practical approach and a clear process to improve your pitching and responses to tenders. It covers areas such as common mistakes, in depth analysis of your audience, messaging and tone, persuading, what researching really means when pitching, visual differentiation, and cross border pitching. It also includes feedback and case studies from in house lawyers and partners, who have seen or made the worst of pitches, and the most outstanding. 

Leadership for Lawyers

Essential Leadership Strategies for Law Firm Success, Second Edition

This second edition, coordinated by Rebecca Normand-Hochman and Dr Heidi K Gardner on behalf of the International Bar Association, explores the crucial elements of law firm leadership. New and updated chapters by prominent experts in the field include leading partners to collaborate; leading the M&A process and leadership succession.

The Lawyer as Leader: How to Own your Career and Lead in Law Firms

This special report is a practical, experience-based guide to personal development at every stage of a lawyer’s career. The author draws on over 30 years as an international commercial lawyer and senior partner in a Magic Circle firm to offer a roadmap for moving from a “What’s expected of me?” mindset to self-leadership and leadership of others. The report’s main theme is that retaking autonomy and control can transform engagement and fulfillment in a legal career.

Family Offices

The STEP Handbook for Advisers, Second Edition

Prepared in association with STEP, the world’s leading organisation for private wealth professionals, this new edition of Family Offices features updated chapters from key players in the field including Sandaire, Pitcairn and Farrer & Co.

This practical guide steers readers through the family office model, from its inception to the final stage in its “life cycle”,

Carve-out M&A Transactions

A Practical Guide

This practical guide, edited by Robbie McLaren at Latham & Watkins, features contributions by specialists on subjects linked to the structuring and execution of carve-out transactions and provides an invaluable insight into the legal, regulatory and practical elements in play. Topics include documentary provisions, IP transfers, transitional services, employment risks, antitrust concerns and financing acquisitions.

Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession

This Special Report explores strategies for maximising inclusion and diversity in the legal profession both in-house and in private practice. 

Each of the report's five chapters has been written by an expert with direct experience and knowledge in their specialist field. The areas covered by this Special Report are: disability, female gender issues, social mobility, trans* inclusion and ethnicity issues. 

This new report is essential reading for all organisations committed to inclusion and diversity across the modern workplace.

Intellectual Property in Electronics and Software:

A Global Guide to Rights and Their Applications, Second Edition

Intellectual Property in Electronics and Software provides practical guidance and addresses key IP law issues in major jurisdictions worldwide which impact on software and electronics companies. This new edition covers the latest case law on open source software and standard essential patents and features new chapters on the possible impact of the Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent. Geographical coverage has also been expanded to include details of the procedures and protection available in Italy. Written by a team of leading specialists in IP law, this is an invaluable guide to navigating the complex and overlapping rights which protect innovation in this field.

Business Thinking in Practice for In-House Counsel

Taking Your Seat at the Table

Business Thinking in Practice for In-house Counsel: Taking Your Seat at the Table takes a practical look at key concepts from influential business theory and illustrates how these are applicable to managing or working in an in-house legal department.

Topics covered include purpose, culture, talent and innovation, all of which intersect to provide the structure and framework for legal teams to create a competitive edge. Each chapter features an interview and case study with a general counsel and/or legal team to demonstrate how business concepts can be used in-house most effectively.

The Encyclopaedia of Upstream Oil and Gas

Second Edition

This updated edition provides the unique combination of an encyclopaedia with commentary for the entire chain of petroleum activities.Fully updated, this new edition provides additional sections on (i) international laws and treaties with direct impact on the upstream sector, (2) anti-corruption laws and practices, (3) corporate and social responsibility, (4) oil and gas service contracts, (5) confidentiality agreement, among others.

Negotiating Technology Contracts

This practical, how-to book seeks to explain the perspectives of both sides of the negotiating table on a clause-by-clause basis, clearly setting out the key points they will want to protect – and why – while also offering suggestions as to what they may be willing to concede or compromise upon. It is written with the benefit of DLA Piper’s unparalleled view of the global market for technology sourcing and outsourcing projects, and from acting both for customers and service providers in this space.

History repeats: auto supply chain is back on the agenda

06 September 2019

Alan Tilley

In our latest blog, Alan Tilley, Chairman of Bryan Mansell & Tilley LLP, discusses collateral damage in the automotive supply chain as recession in the UK and continental Europe threatens.

Is it possible to create a mindful workplace in a corporate setting?

22 July 2019

Jonathan Bond

In our latest guest blog, Jonathan Bond, Director of HR and Learning for Pinsent Masons, discusses the impact of being permanently switched on, how common-sense rules have developed into mindful business practices.