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This book uniquely offers a single point of reference on the vital legal subject of maritime liens, intrinsic to Admiralty Law and a topic often incompletely understood by shipping firms and other such businesses.

This title identifies nine mindset attributes that are fundamental to success - to individuals, their teams, and their organizations. It looks at how legal departments and law firms can ensure their employees have the mindset and the skill set to optimize this transformation.

Readers will discover how to balance profitability with quality, understand the psychological factors influencing client perceptions of value, and learn about effective pricing structures such as fixed fees, contingency fees, and hybrid models.

Published just over a year after its first edition, this second volume on AI and the legal profession demonstrates just how quickly progress has been made in this rapidly-changing field.

Drawing on the thoughts of multiple thought leaders in this space, the book deals with subjects that lawyers need to be aware of in order to stay competitive and cutting edge

Structured trade finance (STF) is a highly specialised area of trade finance that has evolved directly from practice. As it grows and becomes more complex in an increasingly risk-based regulatory environment, there is a need for more detailed guidance on the subject.

There is no denying that the legal profession has been through an unprecedented period of change. Alternatives to the traditional - in terms of service providers, business models, workflow systems, delivery vehicles, pricing strategies, and so on - are becoming normalized. An excellent example of this is business process improvement. For a profession suffering from aggravated clients, shrinking revenues, competitive inertia, archaic business practices, and system waste, the continual implementation of process improvement strategies (Lean/Six Sigma/Project Management) will be the key to future success. It is easy to understand, is inexpensive to implement, lowers costs, improves quality, enhances communication, facilitates lawyer training, makes fixed fees profitable, and makes clients happy. Lean Six Sigma for Law Firms, authored by Catherine Alman MacDonagh, is the first report of its kind to provide in-depth strategic and tactical guidance on the application of Lean and Six Sigma in law firms, the different approaches firms are taking, where to get started, and case studies highlighting the results have been for those who have already implemented it.This report: + Defines Lean and Six Sigma as they relate to the legal profession + Highlights the interdependent relationships between Lean, Six Sigma and Project Management + Demonstrates the different ways in which Lean and Six Sigma may be employed in law firms With contributions, case studies and insight from leading law firms, corporate counsel and a wide range of internationally renowned experts on legal process improvement and project management, it also covers topics including: + The methodologies and toolkits of Lean and Six Sigma + Deciding when and where to start an improvement program + Applications, obstacles, benefits and lessons learned + Building the business case - the drivers for employing process improvement + The use of process improvement to deliver greater value to clients + Developing competitive advantages through Lean and Six Sigma + Structuring a process improvement program + DMAIC - The framework for Lean Sigma in law firms + Creating culture of continuous Improvement This report provides you with the tools and best practices needed to reap the benefits and face the challenges of implementing Lean and Six Sigma strategies in your firm.

This book discusses the intersection of law and sport and highlights its usefulness to both legal scholars and philosophers of sport. The book will be a valuable resource to Undergraduates, Postgraduates and for those working in the areas of legal philosophy, sports law, and philosophy of sport.

Jährlich sterben Tausende Menschen allein in Deutschland aufgrund von Organinsuffizienz. Da es nicht genügend Organspenden gibt, werden biomedizinische Anstrengungen unternommen, um tierische Zellen, Gewebe und Organe für die Transplantation herzustellen. Die sogenannte Xenotransplantation befindet sich noch in der Versuchsphase, wobei jüngst in den USA zwei Herztransplantationen mit einem genetisch veränderten Schweineherz durchgeführt wurden. In den kommenden Jahren wird die Xenotransplantation als therapeutisches Verfahren wohl an Bedeutung gewinnen.Welche Auswirkungen hat die Xenotransplantation für die Identität und Lebensführung von Menschen? Die Beiträge des Bandes diskutieren ethische und psychosoziale Herausforderungen der Xenotransplantation und sondieren, welche Aspekte für die Klinikseelsorge relevant sein können, wenn dieses transplantationsmedizinische Verfahren in der Klinik Einzug erhält.

Available open access digitally under CC BY NC ND licence. Preventing Violence argues that we can move towards safer and better societies by advancing holistic public health approaches to violence prevention. It explores the serious limitations of contemporary public health approaches and proposes an alternative path forward. Based on data from a three-year, ESRC-funded project, Public Health, Youth and Violence Reduction, it also examines in-depth the work of 20 Violence Reduction Units in England and Wales. The book makes clear recommendations for policy makers, practitioners and researchers working to prevent violence and improve the lives of children and young people.

Explores Shakespeare's use of allegory as a privileged tool for making visible the inner workings of his characters' minds

This book explores the intersection of legal frameworks, healthcare innovation, and computational intelligence, shedding light on how emerging technologies like AI and ML are reshaping the medical landscape.

This handbook explores, contextualizes and critiques the relationship between anthropocentrism - the idea that human beings are socially and politically at the centre of the cosmos - and international law.

This book looks at the changing global economy through legal phenomena, specifically at the changes in legal orders since the 2000s. This volume scrutinizes the past, present and the future and discusses what the global legal order in economic fields after the Covid-19 pandemic could be like.

The right to liberty is sacrosanct. In Nigeria, and in Africa generally, however, it is not uncommon for civil rights to be curtailed and even violated by law enforcement agencies under the guise of enforcing the law. This has led to the incarceration of citizens without due process. In many cases, the safeguards to liberty have been observed more in the breach than in compliance due to factors peculiar to the administration of national criminal justice systems. Prison Decongestion in Nigeria aims to discuss remand proceedings, the initial prevalence of the holding charge, and the new order, enshrined in Nigeria by the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015 and other relevant laws. A specialist and practitioner in Nigerian law, distinguished legal scholar Confidence Mbang argues that strict compliance with established procedure will reduce or eliminate civil rights violations in his country.

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of research on environmental policy and governance.

This book provides a range of highly accessible approaches from Discourse Studies for analyzing legal language in legislation, documents, proceedings and media reporting. It is a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of law, language and linguistics, discourse studies, sociology, and media and cultural studies.