Please contact author, John Flood, for copy.This issue was specially published by the MLR in honour of Professor Simon Roberts in 2015.When it was published the paper was awarded the first Wedderburn Prize for the best article of the year by the MLR Editorial Committee in 1993.The paper was...

The recent history of the legal profession is presented as one where the re-regulation of the profession, as epitomized in the Legal Services Act 2007, has placed the large law firm at the centre as a site of regulation in its own right. The legal profession has redefined its professional...

The foreword shows how in the recession of 2008 lawyers escaped culpability while bankers were excoriated for their role in it. Nevertheless in Ireland, when it became a debtor country in the Eurozone, the Troika (IMF, EU, ECB) enforced a restructuring of the legal services market. This is...

(Published Legal Ethics 2016) The relationship between law firms and banks has a long history. Bankers and lawyers constantly work together on transactions so that their relationships are deep and enduring. Through the use of ethnography and interviews this paper examines this relationship and...