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.

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.

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. 

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.

The Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Law

Publication date: Aug 2026

AI is reshaping the legal industry, transforming practices, and influencing behaviors of legal tech buyers and vendors alike. AI adoption also introduces complex risks that require careful consideration. The Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Law is devoted exclusively to the risks and challenges that AI presents to the legal profession.

Drawing upon the candid insights of legal professionals and technologists across 17 jurisdictions and six continents – including users and solutions providers throughout the legal ecosystem – the authors provide balanced, practitioner-grounded perspectives across the spectrum of risk. Bearing in mind the rapid pace of AI development, this book goes beyond the technological risks often discussed in general responsible AI debates (such as privacy, intellectual property, and reliability risks), to also analyze the operational and cultural risks faced by legal professionals.

For readers grappling with stalled pilots, disillusionment, or uncertainty, this book offers practical guidance to build literacy, manage risk, and make informed decisions in an evolving landscape.

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.

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.

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. 

Sufficiency of Disclosure in Patent Applications

A Global Guide

Publication date: Dec 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.

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.

Gas and LNG Price Arbitrations:

A Practical Handbook, Third Edition

Publication date: May 2027

This practical second edition will cover the various aspects of international gas and LNG pricing disputes. It contains contributions from leading international arbitration practitioners and arbitrators in the field and industry experts. It covers the various stages of a gas pricing dispute, from drafting the clause to triggering a review, all the way through the various stages of the arbitral process. It also builds on the previous editions with new chapters which reflect how price review practice has evolved. Thus, the new edition has more emphasis on price reviews in Asian markets and also includes new chapters on key issues such as the role of competition law in price reviews and the impact of previous arbitral awards on future price reviews under the same contract.

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.

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.

Global Mobility of Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals, Second Edition

Publication date: Jul 2025

With increasing political uncertainty, evolving tax landscapes, and the proliferation of special tax regimes designed to attract the wealthy, ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs) now have more options than ever when selecting a country of residence. As international relocation becomes more common, advisers must take a holistic approach to guide clients through the complex legal, tax, and succession implications of cross-border moves.

Co-published with STEP, this comprehensive new edition features insights from leading private client advisers across key jurisdictions worldwide.

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.