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.

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. 

Partner Retirement in Law Firms

Strategies for Partners, Law Firms and Other Professional Services, Second Edition

Publication date: Aug 2025

Partner Retirement in Law Firms encourages proactive retirement planning. In this 2025 edition, edited by partnership and employment specialist Ronnie Fox, expert contributors offer up-to-date guidance to navigating the difficult aspects of retirement in the broad context of career planning, including:

• The financial consequences of retirement;
• Legal matters;
• Day-to-day practicalities;
• Accounting and tax;
• Psychological considerations; and
• New activities in retirement.

Trust Laws in the United States

Publication date: Jan 2026

Written by experienced attorneys and other subject matter experts, this book is an in-depth survey of trust laws in the United States. It provides clear explanations of the law and practical insights into its application. A series of state-specific chapters cover key aspects of each state’s trust laws in the most populous states, as well as key jurisdictions like Delaware, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wyoming. Topics covered include:

• the creation of trusts,
• modification of trusts,
• decanting,
• trustee duties,
• directed and divided trusts, and
• state income taxation of trusts

The EU AI Act: A Commentary

Publication date: Oct 2025

This invaluable commentary on the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) offers a thorough analysis of this groundbreaking legislation. As AI technologies become more integrated into society, it is imperative to address the potential risks and ethical concerns they bring.

Businesses seeking initial guidance and pragmatic solutions on how to navigate the EU AI Act will find this book particularly useful. It is also an indispensable tool for lawyers, judges, and other legal professionals who need to navigate the complexities of AI-related regulations.

The Future of Legal Knowledge Management:

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence

Publication date: Jan 2026

The Future of Legal Knowledge Management: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence provides innovative and robust solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing KM practitioners today, including the ways in which knowledge managers can build a strong data foundation for AI application; how to develop the AI-empowered lawyer; gaining organizational and partner support for AI-augmented legal KM; modernizing existing KM architecture in the age of AI; and navigating the implementation of agentic AI.  

Wind:

Projects and Transactions, Second Edition

Publication date: Jul 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.

Building a Business Development Culture and Strategy

A Management Guide for Law Firm Leadership

Publication date: Jun 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.

Family Law for the High-Net-Worth Client

Publication date: Jul 2026

The legal landscape governing ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) and high-net-worth (HNW) families is evolving rapidly, especially as mobility and international relocation among non-domiciled individuals and British expatriates increases. For professional advisers and wealth-holding families, understanding the nuances of English family law – and how it compares to major wealth centres such as Singapore, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and the United States – is essential for effective planning and risk management.

Sufficiency of Disclosure in Patent Applications

A Global Guide

Publication date: Sep 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.

The Prosperity Pathway:

From Wealth Creation to Legacy

Publication date: Sep 2026

The great wealth transfer presents numerous challenges to wealthy families, with over $100 trillion of wealth expected to pass between generations by the end of this 30-year phenomenon. From different views and perspectives within families, to misaligned expectations and disappointment, to family disagreement and outright conflict, there are many issues to navigate. So far, the biggest difficulties faced by both advisers and families have included a lack of planning, communication and readiness.

In The Prosperity Pathway: From Wealth Creation to Legacy, Russell Prior shows advisers and families how they can be more prepared at whatever stage they are at on the Prosperity Pathway.

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. 

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’.

The Law Firm of 2030

How the future law firm might look

Publication date: May 2025

The legal profession stands on the precipice of transformative change. The Law Firm of 2030: How the future law firm might look delves into the dynamic and rapidly evolving landscape of law, offering a visionary glimpse into what the future holds for legal practitioners.

AI and the Legal Profession, Second Edition

Transforming the Future of Law

Publication date: Jun 2025

The capabilities and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) are evolving at breakneck speed, and law firms and practitioners may be at a loss as to how to make the most of what these new technologies offer. The second edition of AI and the Legal Profession: Transforming the Future of Law acts as a guide, helping readers navigate this new frontier by delving into the impact of AI on the legal industry and the transformative possibilities it presents.

Written by leading experts, thought leaders, and professional and academic pioneers at the intersection of AI and law, AI and the Legal Profession: Transforming the Future of Law, second edition serves as a comprehensive guide for legal professionals, technologists, and policymakers, equipping readers with the knowledge and insights needed to navigate a rapidly evolving landscape, embrace AI's potential, and harness its power to shape the future of law.

The Future of Legal Knowledge Management:

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence

Publication date: Jan 2026

The Future of Legal Knowledge Management: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence provides innovative and robust solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing KM practitioners today, including the ways in which knowledge managers can build a strong data foundation for AI application; how to develop the AI-empowered lawyer; gaining organizational and partner support for AI-augmented legal KM; modernizing existing KM architecture in the age of AI; and navigating the implementation of agentic AI.