The chairman of the City of London Law Society (CLLS) has signalled a major increase in the body’s profile by calling on it to come to the aid of a Law Society inherently weakened by the Clementi reforms.

David McIntosh warned a conference last week that Sir David Clementi’s call for Chancery Lane’s regulatory and representative arms to be split risked neutering its representative arm – unless it forms “allegiances” with bodies such as the CLLS.