PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of a new skills book!
In the Spotlight: Turn What You Know into Thought Leadership That Drives Growth draws from author Ioana Good’s nearly thirty years of experience across multiple fields—including journalism, crisis response, corporate communications, and public relations—to provide readers with practical guidance to increase business growth.
Packed with templates, frameworks, and examples, this skills book provides readers with actionable items to define their authority and utilize it as a growth tool.
As law schools continue to emphasize professional identity formation under ABA Standard 303(b), faculty are looking for resources that move beyond theory and help students develop the judgment, leadership, communication, and well-being practices essential to successful legal careers.
Beyond the Courtroom: Proven Strategies from the Legal Field for Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, and Well-Being in the Modern Workplace is designed for exactly that purpose. It gives students practical guidance for navigating the interpersonal, professional, and leadership challenges they will encounter in practice.
Breaking Ground: How Successful Women Lawyers Build Thriving Practices has been selected as a finalist for two categories of the International Book Awards: Best Cover Design: Nonfiction and Business: Careers. Deborah Farone’s newest book features insights from more than 60 in-depth interviews with leading women rainmakers, including lawyers, business development experts, academics, and law firm chairs, spanning the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Steeped in personal stories, candid advice, and actionable strategies, “Breaking Ground” provides an easily navigable roadmap for any lawyers seeking to grow their practices and deepen their relationships with clients.
Unprecedented: Designing a Human-Centered Law Firm When Everything Is Changing focuses on the ways in which law firms can reinvent themselves amid seismic change in the legal industry. Themes are examined through the lens 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a week-long retreat designed to confront disruptive forces such as generative AI, client power shifts, hybrid work, and outdated economic models.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 service delivery, and alternative pricing—presented not as abstract theory but as lived experience inside a firm fighting for its future.
Reading like a page-turner, each chapter is filled with practical tools such as reflection questions, frameworks, agendas, and exercises—such as an empathy workshop and empathy interviews, providing readers with 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.
This year’s National Library Week theme, “Find Your Joy,” features Mychal Threets as an honorary chair. Threets reminds us of the important link between the care for our mental health and the joy we can discover in library usage. Below is a roundup of practical and popular resources on PLI PLUS to help users nurture their well-being, thrive, and find joy personally and professionally.
PLI PLUS also offers open access to periodical publications on the topic of mental health, such as the following articles included in the PLI Chronicle:
For more content on wellness and mental health for attorneys, browse the Attorney wellness practice area here: Attorney wellness
We’ve also compiled a research guide on the topic of wellness, which can be accessed here: Research Topic Guide on Wellness and Mindfulness. This includes sample searches and highlights even more helpful results.
Beyond the Courtroom: Proven Strategies from the Legal Field for Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, and Well-Being in the Modern Workplace serves as a practical, evidence-based leadership book designed to provide readers with universal strategies for stronger leadership, management, emotional intelligence, communication, and well-being, across all professions. Grounded in decades of coaching and industry experience, the book is a field manual on leading teams through high-stakes matters, communicating with clarity, managing burnout, navigating conflict, and building trust in fast-moving, high-pressure environments. Each chapter provides readers with Key Takeaways and Action Items to make learning immediately actionable, and each part concludes with case studies and facilitation guides for group discussion and enrichment
The book is organized into four sections:
Part 1: Leadership covers such topics as providing stability during uncertain times (Chapter 10), how to break a cycle of toxic leadership (Chapter 11), leading during technological change (Chapter 9), among others.
Part 2: Management highlights managing new associates (Chapter 15), creating a foundation for feedback (Chapter 19), and the helpful nature of performance reviews (Chapter 25).
Part 3: Emotional Intelligence and Communication discusses the importance of praise (Chapter 29), de-escalation measures (Chapter 31), and how to navigate political and social tensions within the legal profession (Chapter 33).
Part 4: Well-Being and Inclusion features how to prioritize balance at work (Chapter 36), tips to prepare for law school (Chapter 39), and “life after law” regarding career transitions (Chapter 43)
This book is a comprehensive resource for knowledge management and innovation (KM&I) professionals in the legal industry. It offers best practices for achieving common KM&I goals and includes several checklists and other practice forms which can be used to help organizations and law firms implement beneficial KM&I procedures. The book presents its knowledge management concepts within a broad framework and historical context while also covering the most recent developments.
Notably, the manual covers the following important topics:
How to conduct a knowledge assessment and develop a knowledge strategy (see Chapter 2);
Considerations when structuring KM&I teams (see Chapter 3);
Precedent collection development and maintenance (see Chapter 6);
Client-facing knowledge management (See Chapter 19)
In addition, the book gives guidance on how to leverage collaboration tools (see Chapter 11), configure document management systems (see Chapter 5), improve organizational processes (see Chapter 14), and more.
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