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Practicing Legal Design
01.09.2025
Legal design is no longer a niche concept but a growing movement reshaping how legal services are delivered, understood, and experienced. While discussions around innovation in law have gained momentum, meaningful adoption often lags behind ambition. Many legal professionals recognize the need for transformation but struggle to integrate a prototype-driven and interdisciplinary approach into their working environments.This book bridges the gap between theory and execution, offering a comprehensive guide to implementing legal design in law firms, legal departments, institutions, and other legal service environments. From exploring user-centered approaches to structuring design-driven processes, it provides actionable insights into how legal design can enhance clarity, accessibility, and efficiency in legal services.
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.
Whether you’re just starting your journey in legal design or already working on innovation projects, this book serves as a practical resource that you can revisit as challenges and opportunities arise. By blending theory with real-world application, it provides a roadmap for making legal design a fundamental and effective part of legal practice.
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Islamic Finance: A Practical Guide, Third Edition
27.08.2025
The new edition of Islamic Finance is now live for subscribers to Banking and Finance.
Demand for Sharia-compliant finance and an increasing alignment between Islamic finance and the global ethical finance movement has led to unprecedented and accelerating growth within the sector. This is evidenced not only by the Islamic finance market’s size, but also by the growing number of Islamic finance providers beyond banks, and the increasing diversity of products and services. Sharia-compliant funds and takaful (Islamic insurance) have emerged as substantial markets in their own right. Technology has played its part in that evolution and with the exponential growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has come increasing awareness of the ethics of finance.Today, Islamic finance attracts sovereigns, financial institutions, multinationals, corporates and customers across the retail spectrum who are looking to access Islamic liquidity across sukuk (Islamic bonds), corporate, retail, acquisition, funds, development and project financings.
This third edition features fully updated, insightful chapters by leading Islamic finance practitioners and analyses market trends, key developments and structures for sukuk, syndications, funds, takaful, project financing and Islamic liquidity management. New to this edition are chapters on fintechs, AI ethics and derivatives.
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Partner Retirement in Law Firms
08.08.2025
The new edition of Partner Retirement in Law Firms is now available for subscribers to Law Firm Management - Talent Management.
Most professionals, especially those who own all or part of their firm, find it difficult to think about retirement. Many of those who practise their chosen profession into their sixties and seventies are reluctant to contemplate life without the mental stimulation, companionship, excitement and sense of fulfilment that their work provides. To a great extent, we are what we do; winding down raises questions about self-esteem and our value to society. Professional life increasingly conditions us to place the interests of clients, customers and colleagues so far in front of our own interests that personal and family issues are sometimes neglected, creating additional challenges.
With these challenges in mind, 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.