James Lingard - educated at Dulwich College and University College London – was a partner in Norton Rose, a leading firm of City of London solicitors. He became Chairman of both the Banking Law and the Insolvency Law Sub Committees of the City of London Law Society. A former Council Member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals and of the European Association of Insolvency Practitioners, he was appointed a Judicial Chairman of the Insolvency Practitioners Tribunal. The founding President of the Insolvency Lawyers Association, he also chaired the Joint Insolvency Examination Board. The 7th edition of Lingard's Bank Security Documents (LexisNexis) was published on 10th December 2019. Since his retirement, he has written:- Britain at War 1939 to 1945 a concise history of the war; The Girl Who Disappeared a fact based 20th century historical romance with rave reviews; The Caucasus Cauldron an action packed thriller and Trapped in Iran an action adventure thriller about Israelis in the 1979 Iranian revolution. Amy's Bookshelf Reviews has made him one of its Legacy Authors and ranked him as a 2022 top 20 author.