LLP Conversion for Law Firms

A highly practical, step-by-step guide to LLP conversion, specifically taking into account the unique considerations that are raised by today's economy and evolving legal marketplace. It highlights the key questions that need to be asked during the preparation and transition stages, as well as ho...

Oil and Gas Sale and Purchase Agreements

This new edition, written by experienced and well-known practitioners from within the oil and gas industry, is intended to provide a practical review of the provisions typically included in oil and gas sale and purchase agreements.

Making Every Six Minutes Count

Effective time management techniques for lawyers to increase productivity, achieve greater success, manage work/life balance and ultimately have an impact on profitability

Managing Legal Change Initiatives

Managing Legal Change Initiatives highlights the best methods of introducing and managing change in a sector that is known for being averse to it.

Partnership Agreements for Law Firms

An up-to-date and detailed guide to the practical, regulatory and ethical considerations that must be reflected in your partnership agreement.

The Naked Lawyer

From start to finish the naked lawyer will provide you with a complete strategy and skills toolkit for brand, career and business development.

Project Management for Lawyers

Adopt a structured approach to planning, pricing and managing legal work that will boost profitability and deliver superior value to your clients.

Outcomes Focused Regulation

Fully revised and updated, the third edition of this essential handbook breaks down the regulatory changes into bite-sized portions and provides practical guidance to aid compliance.

Redefining Matter Management

A collection of real world case studies highlighting some of the most important achievements and ideas in matter management today.

Shipping Finance

Now in its fourth edition, and containing over 500 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.

Upstream Law and Regulation

Issues featured include the key terms of petroleum law, the types of legal arrangement in place, the fiscal terms, how to qualify to acquire acreage, governing law, dispute resolution mechanisms, decommissioning and governmental control. As a result, the book provides a comprehensive global resou...

Strategic Intelligence for Law Firms

In today's modern, techno-centric world with its endless supply of data, and the multitude of ways to collect and utilise it, intelligence has become the best tool for law firms when it comes to understanding client needs, offering quality value-oriented services, and garnering and retaining busi...

Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession

The second edition has been fully updated to take into account the pandemic and the adverse impact this has had on diversity and inclusion, along with other developments and includes new chapters on belief, ageism, mental health and intersectionality.

African Upstream Oil and Gas

This is a major work providing a country by country analysis of African oil and gas. The book details the oil and gas frameworks and the key concerns in the most significant jurisdictions, including traditional producing countries such as Libya, Algeria, Angola and Egypt, and more recent areas wi...

Strategic Planning for Law Firms

A workable, real-world strategic planning process that can be used in any firm. A Practical Roadmap - authored by renowned strategic management expert John Sterling - provides the reader with a workable, real world strategic planning process they can use in their own firms.

Business Development

In an increasingly competitive landscape and with challenges from disrupters, the Big 4 and technology, business development has a pivotal role in a law firms’ strategic success and their ability to stand out from the crowd.

Clean Transport

With a particular focus on modal shift, electric vehicles, sustainable aviation, green shipping and connected autonomous vehicles, this Special Report provides a timely in-depth analysis of the initiatives being undertaken to reduce CO2 emissions and promote sustainable transportation.

Building an Outstanding Legal Team

In this practical “how to” guide, Bjarne P Tellmann, General Counsel and SVP of Pearson, draws upon more than 20 years of leading top legal organisations across Europe, Asia and the United States to provide a structured plan for upgrading your legal team in an age of disruption.

Beneficial Ownership Registers

This book, prepared in association with STEP and the first to comprehensively approach this topic, provides an in-depth analysis of the beneficial ownership registers legislation in a number of EU jurisdictions as well as the UK and US.

The Business of Law

This high-level title, published in conjunction with the International Bar Association (IBA), brings together the expertise of IBA members and experienced practitioners to produce a practical guide to law firm management and building a successful business.

Liquefied Natural Gas

This fully revised new edition of the best-selling title features contributions from leading energy companies, institutions and academic bodies, as well as consultancies and law firms, and each of the writers is a specialist in their field.

Cross-Border Insolvency

This new edition provides an in-depth, article-by-article analysis of the local enactment and application of the model law in each of the jurisdictions concerned, alongside consideration of the relationship between the model law and any existing cross-border insolvency jurisprudence.

Company Formation

Company Formation: A Practical Global Guide, Third Edition is an updated and expanded edition of this popular title on how to set up a company in a wide ragne of jurisdictions. New to the third edition are agreements setting forth the relationship between the shareholders and the company (ie, the...

Global Investment Funds

This publication provides a wide-ranging and practical guide to the legal, regulatory, tax and commercial elements of establishing and operating private investment funds. Practitioners and other industry participants are likely to gain significant benefit from applying its contents within their o...

Decarbonising Energy

This Special Report explores the central themes arising from the low carbon energy transition and explains why the challenges faced in delivering Net Zero should not be underestimated. It sets out how the road to Net Zero will involve a repurposing of not only our energy system but also our own b...

ESG in Mining and Minerals

This book will be an invaluable guide for directors and management in mining and minerals companies, investors and financiers, as well as sustainability professionals, in-house and external counsel and anyone else who is concerned with the ESG impacts of extractive industries.

Drafting and Negotiating Petroleum Royalty Agreements

This Special Report provides an overview of the key issues relating to petroleum royalty agreements including key forms of royalty agreement (including gross overriding royalties, net profit interests, cash and in-kind royalties).

Educational Institutions

In summary, this comprehensive handbook will provide a trusted guide for legal and business markets to the risk profiling, structural analysis and regulatory compliance issues that face all educational organisations seeking to establish themselves internationally.

Family Enterprises

This book compiles the wisdom of experienced leaders of family growth companies and those who advise them, focusing on what works to sustain business success without sacrificing family relationships or control. Each of the contributors is grounded in deep management or professional expertise guid...

Future-proof Your Legal Career

Through exploring ten core areas of professional development for lawyers, discover in this book how to unleash yourself from your barriers and future-proof your legal career today. Content covers everything from self-discovery, through to thought-leadership and pitching as well as the skills and ...

Global Merger Control Handbook

To help you navigate through the various specific merger control regulations, this comprehensive two-volume major work offers a thorough and very detailed overview of relevant local rules, methodology, process and timing requirements across over 50 jurisdictions, on a country by country basis.

The In-house Counsel Compliance Companion

In-house counsel must be able to identify and comply with the non-negotiable regulatory and ethical duties expected of them by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. This book provides guidance on essential regulatory and ethical knowledge.

Leadership for Lawyers

This second edition, coordinated by Rebecca Normand-Hochman and Dr Heidi K Gardner on behalf of the International Bar Association, explores the crucial elements of law firm leadership. New and updated chapters by prominent experts in the field include leading partners to collaborate; leading the ...

Patent Enforcement in the UK and Trans-Pacific Countries

This book will provide readers with a structured account of the relevant enforcement procedures and substantive patent law in each country, enabling a quick compare and contrast to be made between countries and the identification of relevant issues.

The People Who Run Law Firms

By lawyers, for lawyers, it tells personal stories about their pathways to the law and gives their views on clients, management, the role of lawyers in society and the issues of the day.

Mentoring and Coaching for Lawyers

Featuring chapters by well-respected experts in the field of mentoring and coaching, chapters cover topics including leadership coaching for law firm leaders; mentoring and coaching for lawyers at various stages of their careers; and mentoring and coaching for successful onboarding of lawyers, am...

The Post-Pandemic Law Firm

The Post-Pandemic Law Firm looks at how law firms can make a paradigm shift, adopting an entirely new business model that focuses on providing outcomes, outputs, and results to their clients and internally places the wellbeing of their team as a cornerstone to the future long-term success and sus...

Microfinance

Edited by Ranajoy Basu, a senior structured finance and capital markets lawyer who also spearheads the global social impact finance group at Reed Smith, this unique publication will provide practical, commercial and candid guidance from an array of thought leaders in the microfinance sector.

Oil and Gas Trading

This new guide to oil and gas trading aims to fill a gap not currently supplied by other reference books on sale-of-goods law and charters by focusing on the day-to-day realities of trading in the sector. It examines the way in which the oil and gas market operates in practice, taking note of rea...

Smart Collaboration for Lateral Hiring

Laterals who collaborate with their new colleagues are significantly more likely to stay with the firm longer, to hit or exceed their targets, and to thrive professionally. Firms need a well-constructed plan and clear accountability processes if they expect to help laterals achieve two-way colla...

Smart Collaboration for In-house Legal Teams

This Special Report combines the rigour of Harvard research with a pragmatic focus based on input from hundreds of General Counsels, in-house lawyers, CEOs and board members to show why and how legal teams work across silos – what we call ‘Smart Collaboration.’

Trade Secret Protection

Edited by leading IP practitioner Trevor Cook, this important title demystifies the law of trade secrets in over 30 jurisdictions, covering substantive and procedural aspects of both criminal and civil law and exploring the final remedies available under each.

Succession Planning

A successful succession encompasses two core elements: transitioning firm management to a new generation, and transferring client relationships.

Trusts in Prime Jurisdictions

Written by leading professionals and recognised academics, many of whom are STEP members, the fifth edition of 'Trusts in Prime Jurisdictions' will be an essential resource for all lawyers, trust practitioners and banking professionals working in the field.

The Virtual Lawyer

The Virtual Lawyer examines the new virtual ways of approaching marketing and business development, explaining how you can continue to strengthen your existing relationships, boost your visibility in the markets you serve, and generate the new introductions and new opportunities you’ll need to gr...

Your Role as General Counsel

By guiding you through the first 100 days in a significant role, this Special Report seeks to address some of the challenges of the demanding role of General Counsel. It is a must-read for any current or aspiring GC, in-house legal teams, HR directors, CEOs and private practice lawyers who wish t...

The Partner Remuneration Handbook

Partner compensation and how partners share profits is central to the cohesive fabric of any professional partnership. While one adage says that “there are as many profit-sharing systems as there are partnerships”, there has recently been the emergence of a global practice about what “merit” mean...

Directors' Liability and Indemnification

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), Sweden (Nordics) and Saudi Arabia.

Stress and Burnout in Law Firms

This Special Report is written expressly for professional colleagues who want to work together in common cause to bring greater awareness to wellness needs and to minimise excessive stress or distress in the legal workplace, positively impacting workplace culture, professional relationships, firm...

General Counsel in the 21st Century

Chapters are written by an international group of well-known general counsel, corporate legal leaders, and other experts, and cover important topics for general counsel today, including legal operations, how adaptive legal functions are embracing technology, managing change, and doing more with l...

Building the Data-Driven Law Firm

Bringing the book bang up to date, new content features how we can keep data secure in the changing world of work, how data can be used for business development and client satisfaction, the implications of data bias and data theft, and whether the way we use data is even useful anymore.

Innovation in Law Firms

Divided into four parts to reflect the innovation lifecycle of examine, explore, develop and reflect, this book is a practical guide for those starting or doing innovation in law firms.

COLP and COFA: Compliance in Practice

It is a condition of authorisation that all SRA-authorised law firms must have a compliance officer for legal practice (COLP) and a compliance officer for finance and administration (COFA), and that these individuals must comply with regulatory duties imposed on them personally. Now in its third...

What Clients Want from Law Firms

Research shows that most lawyers think they know what their clients want – but their clients don’t always agree. How can lawyers and their firms truly understand the client perspective? How can they know what their clients are really asking for? What do lawyers need to know in order to get – and ...

Essential Reads for the Modern Lawyer

Essential Reads for the Modern Lawyer draws on Globe Law and Business' Modern Lawyer journal’s wealth of opinion pieces, interviews and thought leadership, which together comprise an invaluable and wide-ranging analysis of the topics that really matter to those working throughout the legal ecosys...

The Rising Role of Women in Family Offices and Family Businesses

The Rising Role of Women in Family Offices and Family Businesses is a perceptive and timely Special Report that explores the growing role of women in leadership positions within family offices and family-owned businesses.

Rainmakers: Born or Bred

The book advocates stripping away the negative associations many lawyers have with the “S” word – selling – as this is a crucial step in redefining our approach to business development. It explores the benefits to stepping out of the safety net of simply being a great lawyer – which is vital in t...

Essential Reads on Family Offices

Contributions have been carefully curated from the prestigious archive of The International Family Offices Journal, co-published with STEP, and the Special Report, Family Business and Responsible Wealth Ownership.

Profitability in Law Firms

Profit. What a simple term. To determine it, all one needs to do is take revenue and subtract costs and there you go: profit. From there it’s easy to determine a percentage and margin. So what’s so hard about law firm profitability?

Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data

Combining both theory and practice from industry leaders, insight is provided from legal tech, in-house legal departments, law firms, and academia. Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data is your guide to navigating the fast-evolving landscape of AI in the legal field with step-by-step practic...

Preparing for Partnership

Preparing for Partnership is an invaluable resource for lawyers seeking to achieve the ultimate career milestone of partnership, and for team leaders and management as they help aspiring partners to prepare.

How to Buy Legal Technology That Works

How to Buy Legal Technology That Works is about how to cut through the grist and find practical solutions that work for you, regardless of marketing and sales hype, it lays out a soup-to-nuts legal tech procurement approach that takes you through the entire process.

Carbon Capture and Storage

This Special Report explores the most recent regulatory, political and economic trends and themes arising from CCS technologies and projects. It will be an invaluable resource for in-house counsel, senior managers, engineers, consultants, researchers and policy makers with an interest in the ener...

Power of Attorney Legislation

Powers of attorney have a crucial role to play in looking after vulnerable people. Yet power of attorney legislation is inconsistent across the globe, with some jurisdictions having very limited legislation in place.

Product Counsel

Product Counsel: A Practical Framework for Advising Throughout the Product Life Cycle offers a pioneering exploration into the emerging discipline of product law. Authored by Olga V. Mack and Adrienne Go, this comprehensive guide equips readers with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate t...

Essay Film and Narrative Techniques

The collection explores various methods of screen-writing for essay film, through a diverse set of reflections and analyses of canonical and unconventional approaches of essay filmmaking and includes contributions from filmmakers and practice-led researchers. 40 illus.

Dancing with Uncertainty in South Asian Mountains

This book reveals how marginalised communities living in South Asian Mountains are confronting the growing uncertainties of climate change amid fragile ecosystems and often failing policy responses.

Industrial Regions Between Heritage and Destruction

This volume explores shifting identities in Europe’s industrial regions—primarily Upper Silesia and the Donbas—by challenging modernist and nationalist narratives. It unites scholars across disciplines to examine transitions shaped by gender, heritage, migration, memory, and more, fostering inter...

Wildlife Boxes

Wildlife Boxes is a comprehensive guide to identifying and monitoring the species that use nest boxes, roost boxes and other artificial structures. With more than 100 photographs taken in the field, the book offers a practical resource on what box contents look like in practice.

Assessing the effects of cover crops on cash crop yields

Cover crops (CC) provide numerous soil, crop, and environmental benefits. However, the benefits of CC on increasing the subsequent crop yield remain unclear and debatable. Here, we comprehensively summarized the existing literature on the (a) various agronomic and pedoclimatic variables which imp...

Warm season leguminous cover crops

In this chapter the authors review research showing how warm season legume CCs can play an important role in creating sustainable solutions that decrease our dependence on synthetic fertilizers and alleviate environmental impacts of crop production.

Cool season grass cover crops

This chapter discusses: (1) how cool season grass cover crops affect soil properties, nutrient cycling, pest and disease control, weed control, and subsequent cash crop yields, and (2) key issues or challenges in integrating grass cover crops into crop rotations. Because soil erosion control bene...

Cool season leguminous cover crops

Legumes add nitrogen (N) to agricultural systems via the process of biological nitrogen fixation (BNF). They have long been integrated into crop rotations as forage and cash crops, with increasing adoption as cover crops in recent years. This review explores the role of cool-season legumes as cov...

The role of cover crops in improving biodiversity

Cover crops were initially used to improve the soil, prevent erosion and manage nutrients, but they can also be used to alleviate soil compaction, manage pests, attract pollinators and more broadly, increase plant biodiversity in otherwise less diverse monoculture or biculture systems (e.g. corn/...

Cover crop decision support tools

To maximize the multiple agroecosystem services that cover crops provide, farmers and their advisers need detailed information. Assorted groups have sought to distill the large amount of information pertaining to cover crop management into decision support tools to provide recommendations. Howeve...

The role of cover crops in improving soil biological health

Cover crops are commonly grown to enhance soil quality by building and maintaining soil organic matter and facilitating a biotic community that enhances crop productivity and resistance and resilience to stress. The physical enhancement of soils not only protects them from erosion, but also impro...

Cover crop establishment

Cover crops provide multiple benefits including nutrient management, erosion control, and soil improvement. Timely cover crop establishment is a primary challenge and a barrier to wider adoption. Cover cropping is particularly sensitive to growing season length and rainfall. Drilling the cover cr...

Cover crops for arthropod pest management

Cover cropping, the intentional planting of non-crop plants, is a sustainable and eco-friendly pest management strategy. This chapter explores the ecological mechanisms, benefits, and challenges of using cover crops to control arthropod pests in annual and perennial cropping systems. The authors ...

The future of cover crops: opportunities, challenges and R&D needs

This concluding chapter summarizes key issues explored in the book: Cover crops for sustainable management. It assesses current barriers to extending cover crop adoption. It provides an overview of key aspects of cover crop management explored in individual chapters in the book designed to better...

Key considerations in terminating cover crops

The management of cover crops includes several key decisions such as species selection, and the timing and methods for establishment and termination. Cover crop termination is one of the most important factors because timely, successful termination ensures that the cover crop does not excessively...

Non-leguminous broadleaf cover crops

This chapter provides an in-depth review of commonly used non-leguminous broadleaf cover crops. It outlines key agronomic characteristics, management considerations, and the ecological and benefits associated with each species. Additionally, it examines both the advantages and potential challenge...

Strategies to increase cover crop adoption

Historically, cover crops were valued for reducing soil erosion, providing nitrogen for non-leguminous crops, conserving soil nutrients, and improving soil physical properties. In the last four decades, there has been renewed interest in cover crops as a partial solution to water quality degradat...

Warm season grass cover crops

Warm season grass cover crops include sorghums (tribe: Andropogoneae), millets (tribe: Paniceae), and teff (tribe: Eragrosteae). These cover crops are grown in grain and vegetable cropping systems of tropical, subtropical, and temperate climates. Due to their rapid biomass production and extensiv...

The role of cover crops in forage production

Cover cropping provides ecosystem services to farms and communities. One ecosystem service often overlooked is the material output of forage that is possible from cover crops. Cover crops can provide high yield and quality feed for a variety of livestock types. In many cases farmers may generate ...

Wild Skye

Few places pack so much natural drama into so small a space as Skye — from Jurassic dinosaurs and volcanic landscapes to golden eagles, otters and whales.

John Wolley’s Garefowl Books

The great auk is gone – and the manuscripts that documented its final days helped birth a radical idea: that humans could drive a species to extinction. A landmark primary source, now published in full for the first time, accompanied by commentary and essays.

After Ocoee

Beginning with the 1920 Ocoee Voting Massacre of African Americans and describing other lynching activities of the time, this book explores the ways in which art, storytelling, memory work, and public engagement can help communities confront histories of racial violence, pursue truth and justice,...

Compassionate Communication

Explores communication as an existential choice between compassion and hostility. Drawing on communication studies, philosophy, history, and human rights scholarship, the book argues for compassionate communication as a foundation for care, responsibility, and human coexistence.

Global Fashion Brands

Fashion branding is a process that needs to be analysed from a style, luxury and historical pop cultural view using critical, ethnographic, individualistic or interpretive methods. Contributors examine the meaning behind branding in the context of contested power relations underpinning the produc...

Supernatural

Exploring the history, themes, production and fandom of Supernatural, this book shows how an unlikely cult fantasy drama became a global television phenomenon and a key example of the changing relationship between television, social media and participatory fan culture.

Remaking Perfect Strangers

An interdisciplinary study of Paolo Genovese’s Perfetti sconosciuti as a global remake phenomenon, exploring how translation, adaptation, and 'tradaptation' reshape themes of intimacy, secrecy, trust, and digital identity across diverse cinematic, cultural, and industrial contexts.

WWE Raw

A study of WWE Raw as one of television's longest-running and most influential programmes, exploring how its evolution from cable broadcasting to global streaming reveals changing technologies, industries, audience cultures and the enduring nature of television itself.

Streaming Across Media

Streaming services are central distributors of media content across music, film, television,games, audiobooks, ebooks and more. Increasingly, the boundaries between these media content categories are blurred. Streaming is a phenomenon that we can witness in multiple media sectors, connecting medi...

Student-Centered Musical Expertise

Explores how student-centred learning and expert musical instruction can be combined in popular music education. Introducing the Student-Centred Musical Expertise (SCME) framework, the book examines personalised approaches to instrumental teaching through theory, research, and classroom practice.

The Intellect Handbook of Class and Culture

Class and culture are mutually constitutive forces shaping all areas of life. This handbook offers a penetrating examination of their interaction across seven sections, ranging from theoretical foundations to emerging futures, integrating empirical analysis with theoretical depth, insisting on cl...

Seinfeld

A loving and detailed tribute to legendary sitcom Seinfeld, examining its humour, cultural impact and enduring appeal through the history of comedy, everyday life and contemporary popular culture. Includes chapters on the show’s history and cast, relationship with Theatre of the Absurd, treatment...

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

A study of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend as a landmark work of post-network television, exploring its musical storytelling, narrative innovation, multilingualism, representation and enduring fan culture across production, reception and digital afterlives. Part of the TV Matters series.

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