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Practicing Legal Design
Publication date: Aug 2025
Drawing on extensive experience in legal design, innovation, and transformation, this book blends strategic vision with hands-on experience. It goes beyond high-level discussions to address the real-world challenges of integrating legal design thinking into legal practice, whether that means overcoming organizational resistance, aligning stakeholders, or proving the value of legal design to decision makers. It also offers practical tools and frameworks to navigate the hidden complexities of legal design projects, ensuring that design-driven change is not only embraced but sustained.
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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
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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sufficiency of Disclosure in Patent Applications
A Global Guide
Publication date: Oct 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.
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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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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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AI with Purpose:
A Strategic Blueprint for Legal Transformation
Publication date: Jul 2026
Transform your legal practice with strategy, not just technology.
AI with Purpose is a strategy-first playbook for legal leaders under pressure to "do something with AI" but who don't want to waste money on pilots that never scale. Rather than another tour of tools, the book introduces the Why Equation (Purpose + Clarity + Alignment) and shows how to translate strategic intent into execution through AI-first thinking, client-outcome metrics, and adoption strategies that account for the reality that lawyer attention is scarcer than budget.
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Creating a Cross-Serving CultureShift:
Mastering Cross-Selling for Lawyers and Leaders
Publication date: Aug 2015
Drive greater cross-selling success with this practical, actionable guide on creating a cross-serving culture within your law firm.
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The Handbook for Legal Innovation
Publication date: May 2023
Although legal innovation is critical for law firms, with clients pushing for more efficient, cost-effective, and automated services, very little has been written about how to drive successful enterprise-wide transformation efforts. As innovation and legal operations functions proliferate globally, Nicola Shaver has written the first definitive book to guide legal professionals through setting up an effective innovation function and driving successful culture change and initiatives across a legal organization.
In The Handbook for Legal Innovation, Shaver, the 2020 ILTA Legal Innovation Leader of the Year and a College of Law Practice Management Fellow, outlines how to set up an effective strategy for innovation, provides practical guides for conducting current-state audits, establishes frameworks to help identify project priorities, and outlines how to build and grow the right team. With 20 years of experience in the legal industry, including a decade each of practicing law and driving innovation initiatives in large legal organizations, Shaver draws upon her experience as well as broad industry knowledge to inform this practical guide.
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The Global ESG Handbook
A Guide for Practitioners
Publication date: Jul 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.
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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.
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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