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http://twitter.com/LawSocIreland/status/923845424859017216 Ballots in the elections for the Council of the Law Society of Ireland are being counted under the supervision of its scrutineers.

Over a dozen solicitors and barristers have completed the Institute of Professional Legal Studies' (IPLS) mediation training course.

A personal assistant who stole from her barrister bosses for over a decade has been jailed for four years, the Irish Independent reports. Siobhán Maguire, 47, stole €1,187,616 from barristers Michael Delaney and Jeremy Maher over a 14-year period while working as their shared secretary and person

Garret Farrelly Matheson advised General Electric on its recently announced corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) with tech giant Microsoft, the first deal of its kind in Ireland.

Beauchamps hosted Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy in its offices for an event focused on solving the shortage of good social housing.

Twelve students from schools around Northern Ireland have participated in a Work Inspiration session at Carson McDowell's office in partnership with Business in the Community. The solicitor firm has been involved in the Work Inspiration programme for over four years, welcoming over 150 students over

Michael Donnellan The director general of the Irish Prison Service (IPS) has been named Head of Service at an international prison conference.

A student president who intervened on the basis of legal advice to remove potentially illegal information on abortion from a student magazine has been impeached, The Irish Times reports. Katie Ascough, president of UCD Students' Union, came under fire from pro-choice students after removing informat

A woman has been awarded over £20,000 in the Northern Ireland Fair Employment Tribunal after it was found that she was discriminated against and victimised on the grounds of her religious belief or political opinion. The woman had been working for the company for over four years when a dispute aros

Pinsent Masons has confirmed plans to take new premises at the 1 Windmill Lane development in Dublin's SOBO district.

Professor Colin Harvey Academics at Northern Ireland's universities have expressed concern over the "serious implications" of Brexit for human rights and equality.

Judgment in four cases concerning the use of single separation at Oberstown Children Detention Campus will be handed down at the end of October. The High Court was expected to rule on the cases on Monday, but proceedings were adjourned until this Friday. Irish Legal News has since learned a judgment

Pictured (l-r): Stephen Beattie, Allen & Overy; Ian Huddleston, President of LSNI; Andrew Bennett, Allen & Overy; Michael Robinson, head of UK delegation to Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe Over 50 solicitors attended a special conference at Law Society House in Belfast this week

Ivana Bacik A bill mandating companies with over 50 employees to publish information about any pay gap between men and women in their organisation is likely to come into force next year.

The Bar of Ireland has launched a new Find A Barrister app for smartphones to coincide with European Lawyers Day. The app gives users instant access to The Bar's member directory, making it "easier than ever" to connect with barristers - fitting with the theme of this year's European Lawyers Day, wh