From first day in practice to running the firm: books by lawyers who’ve been there.
Book Category: Legal
Stop The Clock: How The AI Law Firm Moves From Billable Hours to Value-Based Pricing
Stop The Clock is a practical, refreshingly honest guide to pricing legal work in an AI-enabled world.
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Beyond Billable Hours: The Growth Accelerator for Lawyers
Most lawyers build their careers the way they hope cases will resolve: by being good at the work and trusting that recognition will follow. It rarely does.
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Ditch The Billable Hour! Implementing Value-Based Pricing in a Law Firm
In Ditch The Billable Hour!, Shaun Jardine explains how lawyers should move away from time as the driving element of pricing, and focus on the results that clients want to achieve.
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The Secret Magistrate
The Secret Magistrate takes the reader on an eye-opening, behind-the-scenes tour of a year in the life of an inner-city magistrate.
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Delegate Now to Supercharge Your Profits
A practical guide showing law firm owners how skilful delegation multiplies profits while freeing them from heavy billable workloads. Dan Warburton explains how to stop being the bottleneck, build loyal teams, hand over long-standing clients without losing them, and create chains of command that give owners their time back.
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Imperfect: The Life of a Probation Officer
A compelling and unflinching memoir of his two decades working within the Criminal Justice System.
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The Perfect Lawyer
What makes a perfect lawyer? To start answering this question, we need to use a classic lawyer approach – it depends!
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The Perfect Legal Business
A framework for law firm success built on intelligent client selection, proactive client care, purposeful management, higher pricing for higher service, lawyer inputs and cash — all bound together by leadership. The updated edition of a title whose first edition sold thousands of copies in more than 50 countries.
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The Perfect Partner
What qualities does a partner in a modern law firm need? Drawing on 35 years as lawyer, partner and consultant, Simon McCrum examines the partner’s role from the viewpoint of clients, colleagues and the business, and identifies the human ‘magic ingredient’ that makes a firm unstoppable.
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Ditch & Switch: 50 Value-Based Pricing Examples for Law Professionals
A standalone, practical companion to Ditch The Billable Hour!, presenting 50 worked Value-Based Pricing examples for private client and commercial lawyers. Each sets out Gold, Silver and Bronze service options across scenarios such as settlement agreements, child custody, unfair dismissal, property sales and joint ventures.
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The Inner Spark: Leading People in Law
Why do so many law firms struggle to keep talented people engaged? The Inner Spark argues that intrinsic motivation is the missing piece, and shows leaders how to build engagement into daily practice. Coming in 2027.
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Don’t Give Away the Store
Technology suppliers often concede terms they later regret. Don’t Give Away the Store is a supplier-side negotiation playbook built on one simple idea: every term has a price. Coming in 2027.
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(Out)Law: From Teenage Mum to Legal Trailblazer
A powerful and inspiring journey of survival and resourcefulness, exploring the remarkable life of Alice Stephenson, who defied adversity to become a beacon of change in the legal world.
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