Professional ethics is one of the burning issues facing the legal profession at the moment. This volume describes the need for a new ethical framework for a legal profession in transition. It brought together contributions of distinguished academic lawyers and practitioners who typically inhabit quite different and distinctive worlds. This title investigates the speed and nature of the many changes and challenges now confronting not only individual lawyers and law firms but also bar associations and legal education in Europe. It records not only new ideas to inform and guide future developments in the field of professional regulation but evidences a new relationship transcending disciplinary, jurisdictional and professional boundaries out of which a whole new understanding of professional ethics can be built.