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Global law firm Baker McKenzie has credited its global services centre in Belfast with helping to deliver "significant efficiencies and savings" worth over $50 million in annual revenue. Paul Rawlinson, chair of the firm, made the remarks as he welcomed figures showing global revenues up 10 per cent

Belfast firm Davidson McDonnell has announced the appointment of Lynsey Elliott as a senior solicitor, extending the firm's offering to include a full range of finance legal services. Ms Elliott qualified as a solicitor in 2011 and joined the finance department of a major Irish law firm as an associ

New York-based law firm Tully Rinckey changed its approach to its Dublin expansion following President Donald Trump's US tax reforms, The American Lawyer reports. The firm's Dublin office currently has three solicitors but hopes to grow to 10 by the end of 2018 and 35 within three years.

The DCU Brexit Institute has signed a three-year sponsorship deal with AIB, which joins law firm Arthur Cox as an official sponsor of the institute. The institute brings together experts from a number of DCU's faculties and schools, including the School of Law and Government.

The European Commission has given Poland one month to take measures to undo controversial judicial reforms before it takes the country to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The Commission said the response from the Polish authorities to the letter of formal notice it issued at the st

Gerard Ward, senior associate at DWF in Belfast, writes on the key differences between employment law in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. As the Employment law division of DWF, we regularly advise NI and GB based employers on their operations in the Republic of Ireland. As the UK approa

British citizens living in other EU countries have launched a court challenge against Brexit on the basis of electoral law breaches during the referendum campaign. The UK in EU Challenge group, represented by English law firm Croft Solicitors, argues that the referendum was not conducted "in accorda

Ibrahim Halawa, the Irish citizen who was detained in Egypt for four years during an international campaign for his release, will speak at this year's Belfast International Arts Festival. The full festival programme is set to be launched tomorrow, organisers say, but Patrick Corrigan let Mr Halawa's

The Law Society of Ireland is offering free guided tours of its Blackhall Place headquarters to the public during National Heritage Week. The tours will cover the history of Oxmanstown Green, the local landscape throughout the centuries, the original Blue Coat School and Thomas Ivory's vision for th

A solicitor who left a man with permanent sight damage after headbutting him at a youth rugby match has been banned from practising, The Times reports. Gavin Dowell, 52, was struck off after the attack on his friend Mark Scoble during their sons' match.

A law graduate training as a solicitor with William Fry next year is representing Co Kildare in the Rose of Tralee festival this weekend. Gráinne Carr, 23, graduated from Maynooth University last September with a first class honours degree in Law and has since completed the Law Society entran

A woman has availed herself of the ancient Norman rite of Clameur de Haro in an attempt to stop the narrowing of a road in Guernsey. Rosie Henderson invoked the clameur by kneeling and crying for help and reciting the Lord's Prayer, in Norman French.

A Dublin-based barrister is among lawyers who have urged the Government to carefully consider its plans to abolish the court poor box in favour of a statutory reparation fund. Roger Cross told Irish Legal News that he continued to believe poor box donations were an "effective way to dispose of minor

The Bar of Ireland has committed nearly €1 million to fix a hole in its employee pension scheme following a Labour Court decision. It follows on from the regulatory body's decision last summer to remove guaranteed pension increases in order to close a scheme deficit of €4.4 million.

A professor of human rights law has warned that a controversial counter-terrorism bill could undermine freedom of expression, The Irish News reports. Professor Colin Harvey of QUB School of Law told the newspaper that the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill is "deeply problematic".