For firms that do slip into administration, putting a nonlawyer in charge under the current legislation raises problems of client confidentiality.

The laptops have to be adjusted to meet security and client confidentiality rules.

Of course, investment banks are bound by client confidentiality and, by their nature, prone to secrecy.

Client confidentiality would be respected unless there were 'substantive' grounds for an inquiry, the company said.

They are each portrayed so vividly that you begin to worry about client confidentiality.