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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Renewables and the Energy Transition

Publication date: Jan 2027

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.

Hedge Funds:

A Practical Global Handbook to the Law and Regulation, Third Edition

Publication date: Jun 2027

Hedge funds operate within an increasingly interconnected financial ecosystem in which investment activity, investor capital and regulatory oversight frequently cross borders. As a result, understanding the legal, regulatory and operational frameworks that govern hedge fund activities has become essential for fund sponsors, investment managers, service providers, investors and other industry participants.

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.

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.

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.

Enforcement of Investment Treaty Arbitration Awards, Third Edition

Publication date: Jun 2026

Spearheaded by leading arbitration practitioner, Julien Fouret, this third edition of this major work brings together 70 experts to provide up-to-date substantive analysis of recurring issues at the award enforcement stage plus practical perspectives on enforcing awards based on investment treaties. It further explores topics ranging from the specifics of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes mechanism to the enforcement of interim relief and the issues of sovereign immunity and state entities, as well as exploring intra-EU BIT disputes and their enforcement consequences. 

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.

Rising Roles in Law:

Designing the AI-Enabled, Data-Driven Law Firm

Publication date: Jul 2026

Rising Roles in Law: Designing the AI-Enabled, Data-Driven Law Firm fills that gap, delving into the people and roles driving transformation and mapping the workforce architecture of the AI-enabled firm. In a first-of-its-kind guide to the AI-enabled law firm workforce, law firm leaders, innovation professionals, and technologists will explore what these newly formed roles involve, how they interact, how firms should structure them, and what this means for leadership and career pathways. With emphasis on practical insight, case studies and implementation guidance, Rising Roles in Law will equip readers with the data-driven insights and actionable strategies needed to embrace AI's potential and harness its power to shape the future of legal operations.