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AbstractLegal service markets and their professions are transforming through market liberalization, regulatory disruption, and a broader set of societal shifts. This article argues that the nature and scale of these changes require a re-evaluation of the role that rigid jurisdictional boundaries play within the system of the legal professions. Legal Professionalism developed on the basis of strong control over its professional boundaries. Recent discussion of the contemporary legal services market has focused on the competitive threat that new entrants bring to these established boundaries. This article argues that such a focus underplays the nature of the disruption across boundaries of expert knowledge. It focuses on legal services as an exemplar site of regulatory disruption to professional boundaries and draws on the analysis of two key sites (Alternative Business Structures and Wealth Management) to ask what is the nature of connected claims of expertise and what drivers for connectivity do they indicate? Through this analysis of connected professional claims within legal services, this article focuses attention on a new approach to professional work that is becoming more important. In doing so, it advances the research agenda on professions and organizations, not just within legal services in England and Wales, but for other professional sectors and other jurisdictions.

Legal executives are the third branch of the legal profession in England and Wales. While their professional body (ILEX) has made progress in recent years, they remain in a subordinate position to solicitors. Drawing on detailed interviews with legal executives in a range of settings, this article will argue that women legal executives experience a distinctive disadvantage in legal practice. Intersections of class, gender and professional power contribute to a highly unstable professional identity for legal executives, and one which is particularly acute for women. The dissonance between their 'expected' and 'experienced' professional identity reinforces their lack of engagement with ILEX. This article argues that the negative and gendered connotations of the professional identity of legal executives reinforce the hierarchies of legal practice.

This article examines the role played by the New Zealand popular press in fostering anti-German sentiment during the Great War. In particular, it focuses on the case of George von Zedlitz, a Wellington academic, who for 12 months after the war's declaration, evaded government legislation intended to dismiss all enemy aliens from their posts, and intern those regarded as a danger to home security. Weekly journals led the campaign against the professor and fed the public's growing interest in the case. The affair sparked considerable public and private debate to the extent that by August 1915 the New Zealand Government was pressured into introducing the Alien Enemy Teachers' Act, which led to von Zedlitz being dismissed from his position. Adapted from the source document.