Belfast law firm Edwards Solicitors has moved to spacious new offices in the Cathedral Quarter. The practice, which is approaching its 65th birthday, has taken 5,200 sq feet over two floors in the former Church House building in Donegall Street to accommodate 47 solicitors and staff.

Ulster University's Centre for Legal Technology (CLT) has announced a new research and innovation partnership with Lawri AI, a Northern Ireland-based legal technology startup. The collaboration, led by CLT's director John Keers BL, will explore how AI and automation can improve the efficiency, accur

A solicitor who was forced out of her home by a relentless campaign of criminal harassment has urged legal professionals to break the “taboo” of speaking out about abuse. Emma Lyons, who runs a family and criminal law practice in west Belfast, joined the Law Society of Northern Ireland&r

The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland is facing a lawsuit for allegedly failing to comply with its obligations towards trans people under EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights. The Good Law Project said it was taking the legal challenge after the Commission advised an employer th

Trainee solicitors from north and south of the border impressed at the International Negotiation Competition (INC) in London last week. The INC is the oldest and most renowned competition focusing on international legal negotiation for law students from all over the world.

Human rights lawyer Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh has joined the University of Galway as an adjunct professor. Ms Ní Ghrálaigh, based at Matrix Chambers in London, specialises in international law, civil liberties, human rights, protest law and international criminal law.

Former president Mary Robinson has been awarded an honorary doctorate of laws by the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.

Four law students have completed the Bar of Ireland's inaugural internship programme. Greta Baronaite from ATU Letterkenny, Alvena Sharma from Trinity College Dublin, Lee Mac Cuinneagain from the University of Limerick and Michael White from University College Dublin took part in the two-week initia

It’s certainly been an eventful summer for partner Darragh Mackin at Belfast solicitors Phoenix Law. Many of the firm’s cases have been in the public eye, and probably none so much as the discrimination case successfully brought by Irish language rap group Kneecap against the UK governme

Paddy Kelly’s energetic leadership of the Children’s Law Centre (CLC) in Northern Ireland has seen it assume a pivotal role in advancing the rights and best interests of children and young people. When Ms Kelly, its founder and CEO, steps down at the end of this month, the most important

Ailish Finnerty has had only had some six weeks to become accustomed to her role as the new chair at Arthur Cox. She has, though, an air of calm assurance — the consequence of her history with the firm, one that stretches back to her becoming a trainee there after taking a BCL and LLM at UCC a

Wherever there is an Irish diaspora — and where is there not? — there will be St Patrick’s Day celebrations. This was the case earlier this month at the Hyatt Regency hotel in London when the London Irish Lawyers Association (LILA) gathered for its third annual St Patrick’s D