Energy in the Middle East:

From Black Gold to Green Horizons

Publication date: Mar 2026

Energy in the Middle East: From Black Gold to Green Horizons explores the commercial, legal and policy dynamics reshaping what is arguably the world’s most consequential energy region. Bringing together specialists from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s market-leading global energy practice, this publication combines international ‘on-the-ground’ expertise to deliver an authoritative commentary on the sector’s most cutting-edge developments, issues and trends.

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.

Legal Leadership

A Practical Guide for In-house Lawyers

Publication date: Apr 2026

The legal industry stands at a critical juncture. The global landscape has undergone profound geopolitical shifts, making the world we once knew hardly recognizable. Simultaneously, rapid technological advancements, most notably in artificial intelligence, are poised to disrupt legal services in unprecedented ways. This presents legal leaders with immense opportunities. 

Drawing on the author’s 30 years of experience in the field, Legal Leadership: A Practical Guide for In-house Lawyers analyses the pivotal role legal leaders play in shaping high-performing teams, both as culture architects and strategic thinkers. Dr Thomas Loest discusses foundational leadership theories and offers practical insights from his personal experience, gained in the military as well as on the job climbing through the ranks to group general counsel of a $25bn luxury conglomerate. A resource for all levels, Legal Leadership: A Practical Guide for In-house Lawyers provides practicable and actionable guidance using the power of storytelling. The approach is pragmatic, offering a business-focused vision for the legal function, with recommendations for implementation.

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.

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.

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. 

Sufficiency of Disclosure in Patent Applications

A Global Guide

Publication date: Jan 2027

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.

Renewables and the Energy Transition

Publication date: Dec 2026

Renewables and the Energy Transition is written by experts with extensive frontline experience. Each chapter analyses the practical and transactional issues facing the sector, so that readers understand where the market stands today and where it is heading. It is an essential resource for anyone seeking to develop and operate, finance, regulate or understand the technologies driving the energy transition.

Wellbeing in Law Firms

A Strategic Guide for Leaders

Publication date: Nov 2026

Wellbeing in Law Firms explores how the legal profession can create healthier, more sustainable and higher-performing workplaces by placing wellbeing at the heart of firm strategy and culture. The book examines why wellbeing has become a business-critical issue and how firms can move beyond awareness to meaningful action.

Combining insights from leadership, workplace culture, technology and professional development, the book addresses some of the most significant challenges facing law firms today, including the impact of AI, hybrid working, globalization, and the increasing need for resilience and mental endurance. It also highlights the human dimension of legal practice, exploring how coaching, mentoring, and support structures can help individuals and teams thrive.

Wellbeing in Law Firms offers a roadmap for leaders, managers, and practitioners seeking to build firms where people can perform at their best while maintaining their health and wellbeing over the long-term.

Family Offices in the Middle East

Publication date: Mar 2027

Written during a period of extraordinary growth in private capital and family office evolution, Family Offices in the Middle East offers a timely exploration of the legal, financial and practical issues faced by single family offices in the region.

Each chapter of this Special Report draws on real experience from expert authors who work with (or for) ultra-high-net-worth family offices in the Middle East and provides insightful coverage of key topics, trends and challenges.

Joint Operating Agreements: A Practical Guide, Fifth Edition

Publication date: Jan 2027

This fifth edition of the leading work on joint operating agreements (JOAs) provides a practical examination of the provisions of a typical JOA, with a particular focus on the critical issues of scope, the operator’s role, joint and exclusive operations, default, transfers and decommissioning. 

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.

Business Development for Women Lawyers, Second Edition

Publication date: Aug 2024

Business Development for Women Lawyers features multiple contributions from women across the globe, looking at the skills and techniques, experiences, and talents that female lawyers use to develop their practices and grow their order books, acting as both inspiration and motivation to its readers. Chapters on marketing and social media, networking at events, building reputation, and becoming a successful rainmaker make this is an essential read for women looking to develop business based upon their own personal interests and strengths.

Product Counsel

Advise, Innovate, and Inspire

Publication date: Oct 2024

Product Counsel: Advise, Innovate, and Inspire offers a pioneering exploration into the emerging discipline of product law. Authored by Olga V. Mack and Adrienne Go, this comprehensive guide equips readers with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate the complexities of today's dynamic business and regulatory landscape.

The Art and Craft of Judgment Writing:

A Primer for Common Law Judges, Second Edition

Publication date: Jun 2025

In this second edition of The Art and Craft of Judgment Writing, Max Barrett, an experienced and practising judge working in Ireland, will not only enhance your judgment writing skills but elevate them to a new level of clarity, precision and style.