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.

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.

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.

Managing Your Legal Career

A Guide for New and Aspiring Lawyers

Publication date: Oct 2026

You’re newly qualified – now what? This guide, co-published in association with CILEX, looks at how new and aspiring lawyers can manage their careers in a changing profession – navigating the modern legal landscape, building a personal career strategy, and working on the core professional skills needed to build a long-lasting career.

From commercial awareness to working with AI, from maintaining personal wellbeing to understanding when to take the next step forward, the contributors to Managing Your Legal Career break down the fundamental skills newly qualified lawyers need to succeed. The book also features case studies from people who have been there, highlighting the opportunities, potential pitfalls, and surprises that come along the journey.

Family Law for the High-Net-Worth Client

Publication date: Oct 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.

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. 

The Prosperity Pathway:

From Wealth Creation to Legacy

Publication date: Nov 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.

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.

Trust Laws in Italy

Publication date: Mar 2027

Italy is a unique jurisdiction when it comes to trusts. Indeed, despite the fact that a trust cannot be governed by Italian law since the Italian civil law system does not provide for the trust institution, trusts have been recognised in Italy since the Italian ratification of the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on their Recognition in 1989 and have been extensively used in the Italian context. Specific tax rules on trusts have been in force for many years, and extensive case law and administrative guidelines have clarified the legal and tax treatment of trusts in Italy.

The in-depth coverage and on-the-ground expertise makes Trust Laws in Italy a must-have book for global wealthy families as well as Italian and foreign practitioners, such as lawyers; accountants; notaries; bankers; trustees; wealth managers; single and multi-family offices; and legal associations. 

Shipping Finance:

A Practical Handbook, Fifth Edition

Publication date: Mar 2027

Now in its fifth edition, and containing over 720 pages of fully revised and updated material, Shipping Finance includes an analysis of ship mortgage terms and conditions, and mortgagee rights across the main maritime jurisdictions.

Shipping Finance: A Practical Handbook, Fifth Edition is an essential reference tool for anyone involved in shipping finance including financiers, lawyers and shipowners.

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.

The Naked Lawyer

Rip to XXX How to Market, Brand and Sell You

Publication date: Nov 2010

A complete strategy and skills toolkit for brand, career and business development

Secrets of the Masters

The Business Development Guide for Lawyers

Publication date: Jun 2015

A comprehensive, practical, and inspirational guide, it is packed with hundreds of proven tools and techniques for increasing revenue and forging relationships with clients.

The Modern In-house Lawyer:

Optimising Relationships for Growth and Success in an ESG Environment

Publication date: Nov 2023

This book shows how in-house lawyers across the world can better manage their relationships with themselves and others, and how their client organisations can reciprocate. The main theme throughout is that reframing relationships, and then making small changes in them, can together have a big impact on individual fulfilment, organisations and society. Written by Ciarán Fenton, it provides in-house lawyers at all levels, members of the c-suite and private practice lawyers with the principles, tools and models to manage their key relationships and enhance their work.

Managing Partner Performance

Strategies for Transforming Underperforming Partners

Publication date: Aug 2024

It is a strategic imperative for firms to remain competitive, adaptive, and capable of delivering high-quality legal services in today's complex business environment. Partner performance is a critical issue and will become more so in the coming years as AI threatens to replace or reposition underperforming employees. The dynamic and evolving nature of the legal profession, coupled with external factors such as technology, globalization, and economic changes, underscores the importance of performance management for law firms.

Managing Partner Performance: Strategies for Transforming Underperforming Partners takes a comprehensive look at how to improve underperforming partners within the legal profession. It provides insight and practical solutions for law firm leaders committed to revitalizing their teams and optimizing organizational success. Structured into four parts, the book systematically diagnoses underperformance, its cause and effect, how to deal with underperforming partners, and how to proactively performance manage over the long-term.