Southern Law Association

Dermot Kelly has been elected as president of the Southern Law Association (SLA). Mr Kelly, a partner in the commercial and conveyancing department of T.J. Hegarty LLP Solicitors, succeeded John Fuller as president at the association's 2024 AGM at the Imperial Hotel on Wednesday evening.

John Fuller has been elected as president of the Southern Law Association (SLA). Mr Fuller, a partner in the corporate and commercial department of J.W. O'Donovan LLP in Cork, succeeds Emma Meagher Neville, who he supported as vice-president over the past year.

The Southern Law Association (SLA) has hosted a lunch to honour solicitors who have been qualified for 50 years or more for the first time since the pandemic. Emma Meagher Neville, SLA president, told Irish Legal News: "The over-50s lunch is a hugely important, usually biennial, event for the SLA.

Cork law student Hannah Janknecht has been awarded the Southern Law Association prize for the highest mark on her dissertation. The prize was awarded during the UCC College of Business and Law Scholarships and Prizes Award Ceremony held in Devere Hall last week.

Cork solicitors and friends were welcomed to the Maryborough Hotel last week for the Southern Law Association's annual dinner. Emma Meagher Neville, who was recently elected president of the Southern Law Association, told Irish Legal News: "It is a career highlight for me to be president. We had a w

Cork solicitor Emma Meagher Neville has been elected as president of the Southern Law Association (SLA) for 2023. Ms Neville succeeds Gerard O'Flynn in the top role and will be supported by John Fuller as vice-president following elections at the association's recent AGM, which was attended by the L

Over 100 solicitors from Cork and Kerry have attended the annual Practitioner Update Cork & Kerry 2020, which took place online for the first time. Organised by the Law Society Finuas Skillnet in association with the Southern Law Association and Kerry Law Society, the conference provided an oppo

Cork solicitor Michael Enright, a former president of the Southern Law Association, has passed away. He died peacefully at the Bon Secours Hospital on Wednesday and his funeral took place in private.

The Southern Law Association has recognised the first woman to be admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in Cork. Finola Foley (née O'Connor), the wife of Frank Foley of O'Connor & Foley Solicitors, qualified as a solicitor in January 1931.