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.

Beyond Bias, Second Edition

Unleashing the Potential of Women in Law

Publication date: Oct 2025

This second edition of Beyond Bias: Unleashing the Potential of Women in Law offers a holistic, nuanced examination of women’s journeys, achievements, and challenges in law and the ways in which firms and practitioners can implement meaningful change.

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. 

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.

Preparing Lawyers for Technology Transformation

The Exponential Age Mindset

Publication date: Mar 2026

The growth in technology is forecast to increase exponentially going forward. What this means for business is that technology will radically change the way we work, and that constant change will become the norm.

In law, this change has not taken effect as radically as in other areas of business, but it is a matter of when, not if. This book identifies nine mindset attributes that are fundamental to success – to individuals, their teams, and their organizations.

As AI adoption increases, there has been less focus on the human-centred skills that are needed to thrive. Preparing Lawyers for Technology Transformation: The Exponential Age Mindset focuses on how legal departments and law firms can ensure their employees have the mindset and the skill set to optimize this transformation. Increasingly, GCs are seeing that engaging the entire legal department is key to success, and that many non-lawyer roles are going to be even more central as tech and GenAI becomes more prevalent.

Time Management for Lawyers

Making Every Six Minutes Count

Publication date: Oct 2025

Time Management for Lawyers: Making Every Six Minutes Count is a comprehensive guide designed to help legal professionals take control of their time and enhance both productivity and wellbeing. In a fast-paced and high-pressure profession, time management is the key to thriving – not just surviving. This book explores practical strategies for managing overwhelming caseloads, maintaining a healthy work–life balance, and preventing burnout. It covers the latest technological influences, including how AI is reshaping how lawyers manage time and tasks, while also addressing the mental and emotional challenges of working in law.

From optimizing focus to managing client demands and avoiding distractions, this book helps lawyers achieve peak performance while still leaving room for creativity, innovation, and personal wellbeing. With expert advice on delegation, prioritization and setting clear goals, Time Management for Lawyers: Making Every Six Minutes Count equips you with the tools to reclaim your time and thrive in your legal career.

Building a Business Development Culture and Strategy

A Management Guide for Law Firm Leadership

Publication date: Aug 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.

Enforcement of Investment Treaty Arbitration Awards, Third Edition

Publication date: May 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. 

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.

The Outperformers: Lessons from Top Law Firm Leaders

Publication date: Apr 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.

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.

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. 

Directors' Liability and Indemnification:

A Global Guide, Fourth Edition

Publication date: Oct 2022

The fourth edition of this title features fully updated contributions from leading legal experts around the world on what directors need to be concerned about in 2022 and beyond, together with the protections available. New features of this edition include greater scrutiny of criminal vs regulatory liability, forecasting of particular trends, and the insurability of fines and penalties in the jurisdictions covered, as well as new chapters on Jersey and Guernsey (Offshore) and Sweden (Nordics). 

Private Equity

A Transactional Analysis, Fifth Edition

Publication date: Aug 2024

This practical fifth edition introduces the world of private equity not just from a UK perspective, but also that of key European jurisdictions and the US. It explains its rise and recent dynamics, and explores the key ingredients of private equity transactions and the technical issues associated with them. Featuring fully updated chapters by leading private equity practitioners, the book includes high-level analysis of private equity fund structures, equity and debt finance, acquisition documentation, due diligence, tax structuring, and public-to-privates.

Upstream Oil and Gas in Africa

Publication date: May 2024

This edition discusses the opportunities and challenges found in topical issues and covers a country-by-country analysis of African oil and gas, detailing the oil and gas frameworks and key issues in countries such as the Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Libya, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania and Tunisia. Topics addressed include the petroleum laws, the types of legal arrangement in place, the fiscal terms, the acquisition of acreage, governing law, dispute resolution mechanisms and governmental control. Featuring contributions from various leading experts in the industry, this book will be of benefit to all industry participants and advisers pursuing oil and gas opportunities across the continent.

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.