Legal services markets and their professions are transforming, through market liberalisation, regulatory disruption and a broader set of societal shifts. This paper argues that the nature and scale of these changes requires 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 paper 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 (ABS 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 paper focusses attention on a new approach to professional work that is becoming more important. In doing so, it advances the research agenda on professions and organisations, not just within legal services in England and Wales, but for other professional sectors and other jurisdictions.

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法律的界限：当代法律专业精神的联系

通过市场自由化、监管中断和更广泛的社会变革，法律服务市场及其专业正在发生转变。本文认为，这些变化的性质和规模需要重新评估严格的管辖边界在法律专业系统中所起的作用。法律专业精神是在对其专业界限的强有力控制的基础上发展起来的。最近对当代法律服务市场的讨论集中在新进入者给这些既定边界带来的竞争威胁上。本文认为，这种关注低估了跨专业知识边界的破坏的性质。它侧重于将法律服务作为打破专业边界监管的一个典型站点，并利用对两个关键站点（ABS 和财富管理）的分析来询问相关专业知识主张的性质是什么，它们表明了哪些连通性驱动因素？通过对法律服务中相关专业索赔的分析，本文将注意力集中在一种新的专业工作方法上，该方法变得越来越重要。这样做，它推进了专业和组织的研究议程，不仅在英格兰和威尔士的法律服务范围内，而且在其他专业部门和其他司法管辖区。本文将注意力集中在一种日益重要的专业工作新方法上。这样做，它推进了专业和组织的研究议程，不仅在英格兰和威尔士的法律服务范围内，而且在其他专业部门和其他司法管辖区。本文将注意力集中在一种日益重要的专业工作新方法上。这样做，它推进了专业和组织的研究议程，不仅在英格兰和威尔士的法律服务范围内，而且在其他专业部门和其他司法管辖区。