PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Running Legal Like a Business The Fundamentals of Legal Operations for Law Departments Connie Brenton (NetApp Inc.) and Susan Raridon Lambreth (LawVision LLC)
Unprecedented Designing a Human-Centered Law Firm When Everything Is Changing Jennifer Leonard (Creative Lawyers)
“Kathleen Brady has written a well-organized, thorough and easy to follow book that gets lawyers and law firms thinking about the process of planning for retirement and succession.” — Bill Davis , Attorney Search Consultant, KL DAVIS
Unprecedented: Designing a Human-Centered Law Firm When Everything Is Changing explores how law firms can reinvent themselves amid seismic shifts in the legal industry. Themes are illustrated through the experience of a fictional law firm, as it conducts a week-long retreat designed to confront disruptive forces such as generative AI, client power shifts, hybrid work, and outdated economic models. The story reveals the messy human realities of change: fear, resistance, hope, and the courage to design something better. Along the way, readers gain insight into design thinking, change management, lawyer development, client-centric
This guide introduces new and seasoned practitioners alike — along with anyone who wants to know about legal operations — to the necessary fundamentals and strategies for building a cohesive legal ops team that advances and optimizes the legal function in companies. It features contributions of more than two dozen experts in enterprise legal management, legal strategy, legal technology, cybersecurity, and alternative legal services. Inside, readers will learn the importance of running a corporate legal department as a business, and how
Succession Planning and Retirement Strategies for Law Firms and Lawyers Kathleen Brady (Preferred Transition Resources)
Law firm partners considering retirement must plan today to achieve an enriching post-firm life. Prepared by an esteemed career and life management coach with over 30 years of legal industry experience, this guide offers proven tools, processes, and approaches that retirement-age and mid-career attorneys can pursue. Readers can access perspectives from law firm managers and partners as they assess what proactive steps they can pursue to ensure a fruitful retirement. Law firm administrators will also find tips for incorporating retirement transition discussions into their professional development and well- being programs, and law firm leaders will benefit from discussion of succession planning within their firms.
1 softbound volume or digital, 364 pages, $95, Item #328651, ISBN 978-1-4024-3946-9, Published as needed
1 softbound volume, 348 pages, $45, Item #447974, ISBN 978-1-4024-5006-8
1 softbound volume, 190 pages, $49, Item #293924, ISBN 978-1-4024-3573-7
service delivery, and alternative pricing — presented not as abstract theory but as lived experience inside a firm fighting for its future. The story reads like a page-turner, but chapters are also filled with practical tools such as reflection questions, frameworks, agendas, and exercises, giving readers a model they can adapt to their own organizations. The result is an engaging, accessible blueprint for law firm leaders, legal innovators, academics, and other legal professionals who want to shape the next era of practice rather than be shaped by it.
an effective legal ops team can create efficiencies, measure progress, and reduce costs when approaching planning, financial and vendor management, technology management, analytics, and more.
Thinking Like a Writer A Lawyer’s Guide to Effective Writing and Editing Stephen V. Armstrong (Armstrong Talent Development), Timothy P. Terrell (Emory University School of Law), and Jarrod F. Reich (Boston University School of Law) Clear and coherent writing is critical to successful lawyering. This title helps the practitioner or law student “think like a writer” just as effectively as they “think like a lawyer,” primarily through tailored principles and tips developed by a trio of leading legal professors and career development instructors. Anyone currently practicing or looking to practice law will learn tactics and review before-and- after examples showing how a core set of principles can help transform writing. The authors explore organizational coherence, organizational traps, structure, the art of persuasion, reader engagement, and more across different types of legal writing. This book is organized as follows: • Part I introduces the principles that can help lawyers think like writers • Part II shows how readers can organize documents with these principles • Part III walks readers through how they • Part IV highlights how readers can improve paragraphs and sentences • Part V demonstrates how the core principles apply to the editing process
Learn more on how AI is revolutionizing the legal industry by listening to
Working With Contracts What Law School Doesn’t Teach You Charles M. Fox (Fox Professional Development LLC)
Law students, junior attorneys, and businevss professionals will find value in this handbook, which arms readers with advanced drafting tips and other information for creating effective and customized agreements. Authored by a former corporate attorney responsible for more than 80 contract-related training programs for leading law firms and corporations, this title will show why creating a successful client contract requires more than Socratic analysis. Practitioners and professionals will gain exposure to the nuts and bolts of transactional work. They will also become familiar with the practical, legal, business, and technical knowledge required to create agreements that fulfill a client’s objectives and consider the positions of other involved parties.
1 softbound volume or digital, 524 pages, $59, Item #239134, ISBN 978-1-4024-3772-4, Published as needed
can draft effective letters, briefs, and other types of legal writing with these principles
1 softbound volume or digital, 334 pages, $34.95, Item #17186, ISBN 978-1-4024-1060-4
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