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Profitability in Law Firms
Insight and Analysis
Publication date: Jan 2024
Profitability – on the face of it – should be simple enough to determine. But once you start to lift the lid, there is much more than meets the eye. Profitability in Law Firms: Insight and Analysis provides practical and proven strategies for law firm leaders and managers who want to take their firms to the next level of performance and profitability.
How can they increase their profitability and efficiency without compromising their quality and reputation? How can they leverage the power of technology, data, and innovation to create value for their clients and themselves? Law firms are facing unprecedented challenges in the current financial climate and therefore need profitability strategies to survive and thrive in a competitive and changing market.
More details »Carbon Capture and Storage: The Legal Landscape of Climate Change and Mitigation Technology, Second Edition
Publication date: Mar 2024
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a quickly evolving next generation technology which mitigates climate change by capturing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) before it is released into the atmosphere. CCS technology reduces carbon emissions so plays an essential role in meeting global and regional temperature targets.
This Special Report explores the most recent regulatory, political and economic trends and themes arising from CCS technologies and projects. It will be an invaluable resource for in-house counsel, senior managers, engineers, consultants, researchers and policy makers with an interest in the energy sector and CCS technologies and projects.
More details »Turnaround Management:
Unlocking and Preserving Value in Distressed Businesses, Second Edition
Publication date: Dec 2023
Following the highly regarded first edition, this second edition of Turnaround Management covers important legislative changes since 2018 and their significant effect on turnaround practice, particularly the EU Directive on Restructuring and Insolvency 2019 and the UK’s Corporate Insolvency and Restructuring Act 2020. It covers, among other things:
- the evolution of turnaround;
- the influence of the United States Bankruptcy Code’s Chapter 11 on European turnaround; and
- the influence of US turnaround practice on driving change from default insolvency to a better balance of debtor and creditor interests to unlock and preserve going-concern value in distressed businesses.
Family Offices
The STEP Handbook for Advisers, Third Edition
Publication date: Sep 2023
Prepared in association with STEP, the world’s leading organisation for private wealth professionals, this new edition of Family Offices has been fully updated and features a number of new chapters, all written by the leading experts in the field.
The third edition of this practical guide steers readers through the family office model, from its inception to the final stage in its ‘life cycle’.
More details »Preparing for Partnership
A Guide to Achieving Partnership in a Law Firm
Publication date: Sep 2023
Becoming a partner in a law firm is a significant milestone in a lawyer's career, and requires a combination of strong legal skills, business acumen, leadership abilities and a commitment to the firm's success. Preparing for Partnership reviews the essential steps that lawyers need to take to make partnership a reality.
This book outlines the critical factors for success, from building a strong track record to developing a loyal client base, demonstrating leadership skills and meeting the firm's criteria. Contributors to the book discuss how to network and build relationships within the firm, review the financial aspects of partnership, and how to seek feedback and mentorship from other partners.
Preparing for Partnership is an invaluable resource for lawyers seeking to achieve the ultimate career milestone of partnership, and for team leaders and management as they help aspiring partners to prepare. This book will help lawyers navigate the complex path to partnership and realize their full potential in the legal profession.
More details »AI and the Legal Profession
Transforming the Future of Law
Publication date: Nov 2023
AI and the Legal Profession: Transforming the Future of Law explores the profound impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the legal industry and the transformative possibilities it offers. As AI technologies advance at an unprecedented pace, the book delves into how they are reshaping the practice of law, challenging traditional models, and unlocking new opportunities for legal professionals.
Written by leading experts at the intersection of AI and law, this book serves as a comprehensive guide for legal professionals, technologists, and policymakers, and equips readers with the knowledge and insights needed to navigate the rapidly evolving landscape, embrace AI's potential, and harness its power to shape the future of law.
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Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data
Publication date: Mar 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.
More details »Funding International Arbitration
Publication date: Jun 2024
Funding International Arbitration, edited by leading experts Sherina Petit and Nosherwan Vakil, is your essential guide to navigating funding in international arbitration. This new Special Report provides a practical and accessible guide to funding international arbitration and is geared towards both individuals who wish to further their understanding of the area and those approaching funding issues for the first time.
More details »Culture in Law Firms: Best Practices for Engagement and Retention in a Hybrid World
Publication date: Mar 2024
Shaping Culture in Law Firms examines how this rapid shift has affected law firms, explores post-pandemic law firm management trends, and explains how law firm leaders can cultivate strong bonds within the firm and with clients, as well as retain and engage top talent. Crucial to all this is the integration of effective diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I), well-being and engagement strategies.
This Special Report looks at the lessons learned during the pandemic and how they can help refine law firm management approaches.
More details »Clean Transport: The Legal Framework for Achieving Net Zero
Publication date: Jul 2024
Our comprehensive Special Report, Clean Transport, delves into the transport sector’s significant contribution to CO2 emissions and explores how governments worldwide are striving to drive change in this critical area. With a particular focus on modal shift, electric vehicles, sustainable aviation, green shipping and connected autonomous vehicles, this Special Report provides a timely in-depth analysis of the initiatives being undertaken to reduce CO2 emissions and promote sustainable transportation.
More details »Crypto Assets in Trusts and Foundations
Publication date: Jun 2024
In such a rapidly evolving arena Crypto Assets in Trusts and Foundations provides a detailed roadmap to navigating the use of this new asset class in trusts and foundations, as well as offering guidance and insight relating to compliance with the respective legal rules. User-friendly and comprehensive, it will make essential reading for trustees, board members of foundations, wealth managers, lawyers, tax professionals, family offices, high-net-worth individuals and, indeed, anyone keen to embrace the emerging landscape of crypto assets.
More details »Trust Laws in the Czech Republic and Hungary
Publication date: Aug 2024
Trust Laws in the Czech Republic and Hungary explores the issues and challenges encountered when introducing common law trust concepts into civil law legal systems and provides the only systematic review of Czech and Hungarian trust laws in English. It also reviews the legal and practical aspects of trusts in these two – quite different – jurisdictions, and the book is divided into two parts which deal separately with Czech and Hungarian solutions.
More details »The Global ESG Handbook
A Guide for Practitioners
Publication date: May 2024
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are increasingly considered as core business priorities for companies, boards and investors, with ESG representing an area of significant opportunity for many. Navigating the broad range of topics that fall under ESG, including regulatory developments, political impacts and stakeholder sentiment, requires multidisciplinary and global expertise from experienced practitioners.
Featuring cross-jurisdictional insight, this important title covers a range of ESG topics in depth, containing contributions from leading legal professionals, industry experts and consultants. The book firstly discusses ‘what is ESG?’ before covering areas including supply chain topics, financial regulatory impacts, ESG disclosure obligations, M&A and private equity, among many other important subjects.
More details »Innovation in Law Firms:
Implementing Successful Projects
Publication date: Aug 2024
This book focuses on implementing innovation and the innovation process in a law firm, from pilot to adoption and everything in between (whether that be within the law firm itself or undertaken by the law firm’s clients). Divided into four parts to reflect the innovation lifecycle of examine, explore, develop and reflect, this book is a practical guide for those starting or doing innovation in law firms. Whether at the start or part way through an innovation journey, this book allows readers to dip in and out providing guidance on specific issues as they arise as part of the innovation lifecycle.
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Carbon Capture and Storage: The Legal Landscape of Climate Change and Mitigation Technology, Second Edition
Publication date: Mar 2024
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a quickly evolving next generation technology which mitigates climate change by capturing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) before it is released into the atmosphere. CCS technology reduces carbon emissions so plays an essential role in meeting global and regional temperature targets.
This Special Report explores the most recent regulatory, political and economic trends and themes arising from CCS technologies and projects. It will be an invaluable resource for in-house counsel, senior managers, engineers, consultants, researchers and policy makers with an interest in the energy sector and CCS technologies and projects.
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More than free gym memberships: the management response to stress and burnout in law firms
11 April 2023
Lisa Walker Johnson
Lisa Walker Johnson, author of Stress and Burnout in Law Firms: Leadership Challenges and Choices, discusses stress and burn out in the practice of law and how leaders can address these issues.
Read blog »Looking for some actual evidence of change in ESG? Watch this year’s Annual Report season starting …. now.
09 February 2023
Ed Smerdon
Looking for some actual evidence of change in ESG? Watch this year’s Annual Report season starting …. now.
Companies have to start showing their commitment in legally measurable terms by publishing their Climate-Related Financial Disclosures.
This is the last of the three bitesize reads on Environment, Social, Governance by Edward Smerdon, consulting editor of the new fourth edition of Directors’ Liability and Indemnification. The “E” has seen the most legal and business scrutiny.
Q&A with Nicola Saccardo
02 February 2023
Nicola Saccardo
We caught up with Nicola Saccardo, Editor of The International Family Offices Journal and Global Mobility of Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals, to ask him a few questions.
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