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Standards Board Handbook, which was first released in January 2014. This included changes allowing for barristers to engage in litigation and enabling the Bar Standards Board to regulate entities rather than just individual barristers. This article places these changes within the existing theoretical understanding of the legal professions and professionalism, and argues that they open the door for a significant shift in the way that the discourse of professionalism is used in relation to the Bar.The Bar Standards Board (BSB) released its new format of the Handbook in January 2014.This was a substantial rewriting of the rules and principles governing the Bar. A major impetus for those changes appears to be the need to comply with the recommendations of the Clementi Report and to implement a substantial new regime for regulating Alternative Business Structures. The Handbook has provided an opportunity for the BSB to significantly alter the way the profession is both defined and governed. These alterations include an increased regulation of unregistered barristers, 1 the option for litigation rights (rights to prepare cases for filing, usually the preserve of solicitors), a duty to report the misconduct of other barristers, changes to responsibility for chambers management, and outcomes focused and risk-based regulation. 2 This article will look at the rules, guidance and consultations relating to two of these changes: entity regulation and litigation rights, in order to argue that the changes are 1 Marc Mason, 'UK: Room at the Inns -The Increased Scope of Regulation under the new Bar Standards Board Handbook for England and Wales' (2014) 17(1) Legal Ethics 143 2 Marc Mason, 'Making Way for Change at the Bar: The Practical Implications of the new Bar

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