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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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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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Beyond Bias, Second Edition
Unleashing the Potential of Women in Law
Publication date: Oct 2025
This second edition of Beyond Bias: Unleashing the Potential of Women in Law offers a holistic, nuanced examination of women’s journeys, achievements, and challenges in law and the ways in which firms and practitioners can implement meaningful change.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Joint Operating Agreements: A Practical Guide, Fifth Edition
Publication date: Oct 2026
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.
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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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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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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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Electricity Storage:
Powering the Energy Transition
Publication date: Jul 2026
This book offers a comprehensive guide to the commercial, regulatory and financing issues shaping storage projects worldwide. Combining specialist chapters on revenue models, construction, equity and debt financing with detailed country analyses across Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa, it equips lawyers, developers, investors and lenders with the insights needed to navigate this fast-changing market.
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Tomorrow's Naked Lawyer
Newtech, Newhuman, Newlaw
Publication date: Nov 2014
This book, Tomorrow’s Naked Lawyer, explores, debates, and challenges conventional thinking and wisdom with regard to marketing, branding, technology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and the future of law during the period 2015 to 2045.
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Directors' Liability and Indemnification:
A Global Guide, Fourth Edition
Publication date: Oct 2022
The fourth edition of this title features fully updated contributions from leading legal experts around the world on what directors need to be concerned about in 2022 and beyond, together with the protections available. New features of this edition include greater scrutiny of criminal vs regulatory liability, forecasting of particular trends, and the insurability of fines and penalties in the jurisdictions covered, as well as new chapters on Jersey and Guernsey (Offshore) and Sweden (Nordics).
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Negotiating Technology Contracts, Second Edition
Publication date: Aug 2023
This second edition provides a practical, commercial guide to negotiations without a heavy focus on ‘black letter law’, and 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.
The title is written with the benefit of DLA Piper’s unparalleled view of the global market for technology sourcing and outsourcing projects, and from acting for customers and service providers in this space over many years and in many jurisdictions.
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Liquefied Natural Gas
The Law and Business of LNG, Fourth Edition
Publication date: Sep 2024
This fully revised new edition of the best-selling title features contributions from leading energy companies, institutions and academic bodies, as well as consultancies and law firms, and each of the writers is a specialist in their field.
Whether you are a lawyer in private practice or from a national or international oil company, utility business, ship broking or ship building firm, bank or energy advisory practice, this commercially focused title will provide you with a unique, practical guide to today’s international LNG business, while offering thoughtful insights on what the future may bring.
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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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