In Pictures

Staff at Reddy Charlton LLP celebrated the other night after being named the overall Law Firm of the Year in the Irish Law Awards 2021.

Many of the 23 barristers called to the Inner Bar yesterday were joined by family as they celebrated their achievement.

Staff at corporate law firm Philip Lee have set off on an end-to-end cycle tour of Ireland in aid of the Irish Cancer Society and the Alzheimer Society of Ireland.

Staff at KOD Lyons are close to meeting their €7,000 fundraising target after a coast-to-coast cycle from Dublin to Galway in aid of Solas Project and Rainbows Ireland.

Maples and Calder, the Maples Group's law firm in Ireland, has welcomed 10 newly-qualified lawyers.

Ronan Daly Jermyn has welcomed six newly-qualified solicitors to its corporate and commercial, litigation, banking and healthcare teams following their traineeships.

Representatives from the law societies in each of the four legal jurisdictions in the UK and Ireland met virtually this morning to discuss the impact of Covid-19 and Brexit.

Belfast-based MKB Law has donated 50 new Lenovo tablets to the Antrim Children’s Services section of the Northern Health and Social Care Trust.

Northern Ireland lawyers are at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg for what could be the last UK case heard in the EU courts.

Lord Burrows has been sworn in as a UK Supreme Court justice in a small ceremony in the court’s library. He recited the judicial oath in front of the court's president, Lord Reed. All the other justices tuned in to the session remotely.

A lawyer who made a virtual law office in Nintendo's hit new Animal Crossing game has won praise from gamers.

Sarah Ward, a senior associate at English law firm Samuel Phillips, has published some 'ground rules' for her daughters during lockdown.

Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC) welcomed postgraduate law students from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas to a lunchtime seminar at the firm's offices.

Law students at the Law Society of Ireland have triumphed in the national rounds of the Jessup Competition. The winning team was made up of Shauna Scannell and Samuel Elliott of Matheson, Darren McConnon of EirGrid, Louise O'Callaghan of McCann FitzGerald.

Justice Minister Naomi Long has met campaigners for new legislation on stalking as she prepares to introduce a bill to Stormont.