Appointments

Darren Lehane SC has been elected as president of the Irish Maritime Law Association. The barrister will work alongside a senior leadership team consisting of vice-president Hugh Kennedy, treasurer Joseph Richardson and secretary Dermot Conway.

Co Longford-based E. C. Gearty & Company Solicitors has appointed Lisa Duffy as a partner in the firm. Ms Duffy joined the firm in 2019 and is part of its wills, probate and conveyancing department, dealing with estate planning, estate administration, enduring powers of attorney and all property

Employment lawyers Orla Sheils and Sarah Havlin are among four new board members appointed to Northern Ireland's Labour Relations Agency (LRA). The LRA is a non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for the Economy, offering impartial advice to both employees and employers. It has re

Eversheds Sutherland partner Marie McGinley has been appointed to the firm's new global AI leadership team. Ms McGinley, head of intellectual property, technology and data protection in the firm's Dublin office, will work alongside Nasser Ali Khasawneh, the firm's new global head of AI, and other se

ByrneWallace LLP has welcomed Donal O'Donovan to the firm's banking and finance team as a new partner. Mr O'Donovan has over 16 years’ experience advising domestic and international financial institutions, non-bank lenders and borrowers (corporates and funds) on transactions including secured

Dungannon-based P.A. Duffy & Co Solicitors has welcomed Ellen Bates as a trainee solicitor. Ms Bates joined the firm in May 2021, initially as a part-time legal executive, while completing her undergraduate degree at Ulster University. She graduated from her LLB in July with a first class honour

Belfast-based Madden & Finucane Solicitors has promoted Lynn Day to director and head of the firm's expanding civil litigation department. Ms Day joined Madden & Finucane in 2011 and specialises in all aspects of civil litigation, with particular expertise in personal injury claims.

European law firm Fieldfisher has promoted 10 team members in Dublin to the role of director. The new directors are Aine Grogan, Amy McMahon, Aoife Stack, Conor Folan, James Roche, Joanna Bannon, Neil Cahill, Neil Dineen, Noreen McGovern and Rory Ferguson.

Barrister and Dublin district coroner emeritus Dr Brian Farrell has been appointed to chair the board advising the independent office overseeing the excavation of the mass child burial site at Tuam. The appointment of the advisory board follows the appointment in May of solicitor Daniel Mac Sweeney

UK-based employment law firm Lewis Silkin has more than doubled its Belfast footprint since expanding into Northern Ireland in 2021, the firm has announced. Lewis Silkin, which also has a presence south of the border, joined forces with employment law specialists Jones Cassidy Brett in 2021 before a

Gartlan Furey LLP has welcomed Paula Fallon to its private client team following a merger with Paula Fallon & Associates. Ms Fallon brings nearly four decades of experience in the law, having qualified in 1986 and run her own specialist practice in the area of wills and administration of estates

Ballymun Community Law Centre has appointed Paul Dornan as a new community solicitor. Previously working in Mercy Law Resource Centre and the Legal Aid Board, Mr Dornan is experienced in advising and advocating in the areas of social housing and homelessness law as well as family and childcare law.

Browne Jacobson partner Jeanne Kelly has been elected as president of the British Irish Chamber of Commerce (BICC). Ms Kelly, a founding partner of Browne Jacobson's Dublin office, has spent the last year as vice-president of the Chamber and is also outgoing chair of its ICT committee. She will now

Northern Ireland firm Millar McCall Wylie has welcomed Gerard Scullion, Josh Graham, Louisa Law and Emma Ewing as trainee solicitors. The firm has brought four trainees on board for the second year running, bringing the total number of trainees recruited since 2020 to 12.

ByrneWallace LLP has promoted Jonathan Lynch to partner in the firm's corporate group and Sean Neville to of counsel in its restructuring and insolvency practice. Mr Lynch has over 16 years’ experience advising Irish and international clients on all aspects of corporate and commercial law matt