The Government is to nominate Mr Justice Maurice Collins as an ordinary judge of the Supreme Court, and Judge Melanie Greally as an ordinary judge of the High Court. The Supreme Court vacancy arose ...

The PPC Connect Committee is hosting a careers talk on Tuesday 28 January at the Law Society’s green theatre. PPC trainees who are curious about where a career in law can take them outside of ...

Dublin-based law firm Lavelle Partners LLP has appointed four new solicitors after the successful completion of their traineeships with the firm. The newly qualified solicitors are: Liam Tully ...

The Irish Branch of GEMME (the European Judges' Group for Mediation) will host an open hybrid event on the topic of 'Mediation in the context of catastrophic injury and medical negligence cases', on ...

Two sole practitioners have told trainee solicitors that they are still optimistic about the future for smaller and rural practices, despite many challenges. Liam Keane (State Solicitor for Co Meath, ...

The legal profession is at a critical point where disruptive technologies like machine learning and AI are poised to transform how work gets done. Larry Fenelon urges solicitors to embrace the future.

The Minister for Housing has signed an order putting into effect new legislation on tenancies and licences for student-specific accommodation. Darragh O’Brien said that the bill was a response to a ...

Director general Mark Garrett shares his insights on some of the findings emerging from the Law Society’s recent survey of the profession. Mark McDermott and Angela Flanagan report. How will the Law ...

Solicitor Dr Des Hogan is one of two new data-protection commissioners who will replace outgoing commissioner Helen Dixon, whose tenure ends on 19 February. The other new commissioner is Dale ...

What is psychological safety? Does the legal profession need it? And how can it get it? How confident would you be to speak up in a work meeting and share an idea, where it may be interpreted by ...

A bill that contains reforms in the areas of insurance, the courts and legal services has passed its final stages in the Dáil. Having been passed by both houses of the Oireachtas, it will now go to ...

Lawyers Muriel Wall and Pauline Tesler are evangelists for collaborative law, and believe that the model offers less prospect of long-term damage to the children and parents involved in family ...