Awards

Belfast solicitor Jude Copeland has been named winner of the Legal Representation Award at the GNI MAG Awards 2024.

MHP Sellors LLP has been recognised for its work in cases involving brain and spinal cord injuries at the Neuro-Rehab Times Awards 2024. The Limerick-based firm was awarded Brain/Spinal Injury Law Firm of the Year at an online awards ceremony bringing together rehabilitation professionals and brain

Two Irish lawyers including the joint managing partner of Callan Tansey have been recognised at the 2024 European Legal Awards in Budapest. Now in their fifth year, the European Legal Awards were created to promote excellence and knowledge through teaching, research, and pro-active networking.

The Irish Whiskey Association's legal counsel, Miriam Mooney, has been recognised at its biennial Chairman's Awards.

Eversheds Sutherland NI has celebrated after being named 2024 Property Legal Team of the Year at the Belfast Telegraph Property Awards.

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has been recognised with an international human rights award for coming to the defence of a solicitor disparaged in the House of Commons. A statement issued by the Society last year called for an end to “attacks on lawyers” after Ian Paisley Jr, the DU

William Fry has been named Ireland's patent litigation firm of the year at the Global IP Awards 2024. The awards ceremony, which took place at St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London on Thursday 17 October, brought together leading law firms and practitioners from around the world to celebrate achiev

Philip Lee lawyer Maeve Delargy has been recognised with an award for her role in establishing a network for women working in the Irish solar industry. Ms Delargy, a senior associate in Philip Lee's planning and environmental team, won the Empowering Diversity in Solar award at the first-ever Irish

Chicago lawyer Caroleann Gallagher is to receive an Irish diaspora award in Donegal next week. Ms Gallagher, who grew up on Arranmore Island and was one of the first students to attend Gairmscoil Mhic Diarmada, qualified as a solicitor in Ireland in 2004 before later relocating to the US and becomin

McCann FitzGerald LLP has been named Anti-Discrimination Firm of the Year in Europe at the Legal Benchmarking Group’s Social Impact EMEA Awards 2024. The awards, which took place last Thursday in London, recognise leading law firms and figures from across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa fo

Philip Lee senior associate Maeve Delargy has been shortlisted for an LGBTQ+ Person of the Year Award. Ms Delargy is one of four nominees in the category at Ireland’s only LGBTQ+ awards, the GALAS, run by the National LGBT Federation (NXF).

Walkers partner Noeleen Ruddy has been named Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyer of the Year at the Women in Business Law Awards for 2024. Ms Ruddy, co-head of Walkers' finance and capital markets team in Ireland, received the award at a ceremony in London late last month.

Former Cleaver Fulton Rankin partner Joy Scott has been recognised in the King's birthday honours list. Ms Scott, who chaired Clanmil Housing Group from 2018 until 2021, was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to social housing.

The director of the Institute of Professional Legal Studies (IPLS) at Queen's University Belfast has been recognised in the King's birthday honours list. Professor Barbara Jemphrey has been named Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to education.

A social mobility programme launched by the London Irish Lawyers Association (LILA) has been recognised by the Law Society of England and Wales. Michael Walker, of London firm Kingsley Napley, has been nominated for a Law Society Legal Hero award for his role in establishing the LILA Trailblazers pr