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
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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
Dillon Eustace LLP has announced the promotion of five solicitors to associate and one to senior associate. The new senior associate is Daragh O'Malley in the asset management and investment funds team. He advises fund promoters on the structuring, establishment and regulation of all types of invest
Legal academic Professor Colin Scott has been named as the new registrar, deputy president and vice-president for academic affairs for University College Dublin. An internationally recognised expert on regulatory governance, with particular interests in accountability, private regulation and reflexi
Barrister and Mental Health Tribunal chairperson Meg Burke has been appointed as an adjunct professor at University College Cork School of Law. Ms Burke graduated from UCC in 2005 and went on to complete the barrister-at-law degree at the King's Inns, calling to the Bar in 2006.
Gateley Legal Northern Ireland has appointed three new trainee solicitors, bringing the total number of trainees at its Belfast office to seven. Kate Adair, Paul Kerr and Annabel Barton, who were previously paralegals with the firm, will now be studying at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies
International law firm Addleshaw Goddard LLP has recruited partner Jeanne-Marie Moriarty to lead a new financial services and regulation practice in Dublin. The new team will advise clients on all aspects of financial regulation such as retail/consumer financial services, payments and financial mark
Anne-Marie Linehan, partner at J.W. O'Donovan Solicitors, has been appointed to the board of Cork Chamber. Ms Linehan, who has been an active member within the Chamber for a number of years, was co-opted onto the board alongside two others following the business body's recent AGM.
Energy lawyer Alan Bissett has been reappointed to the board of Londonderry Port and Harbour Commissioners (LPHC) for a second term. Mr Bissett is a senior utilities lawyer and has advised on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters at Belfast and London firms. He is dual-qualified as a soli
Global law firm Kennedys has promoted Shanna Dunne and Michael Prior to legal director in its Dublin office, while welcoming new senior associate Martha Moylan. Ms Dunne is now a legal director in the firm's healthcare and life sciences team, specialising in defending medical negligence claims, cata