Lord Falconer has agreed to chair the Legal Week Litigation Forum, with the former Lord Chancellor to lead an elite line-up of judges, barristers and solicitors at the event in September.

Falconer, who last month took up a senior counsel role with the London arm of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, completes a heavyweight roster that includes keynote speaker former attorney general Lord Goldsmith QC, Bar Council chair Timothy Dutton QC and Herbert Smith litigation chief Sonya Leydecker.