Davin Spollen, CEO of Glennon Employee Benefits and President of the Irish Institute of Pensions Management, will discuss the key issues for employers preparing for the impact of new pensions ...

Don’t forget to take out Law Society membership during the PC renewal period. Membership entitles you to a wide range of services, including the important right to run for and vote for your Council ...

Psychological safety is the foundation of high-performing workplace teams and central to creating a culture of wellbeing and productivity, which is why we are launching two new toolkits on Thursday 6 ...

Applications are open for the spring 2025 Diploma in In-House Practice. This course is designed to provide in-house lawyers or aspiring in-house lawyers with a comprehensive understanding of the ...

International law firm Simmons & Simmons has promoted five lawyers in its Dublin office. Grace Lumsden and James Cullinane have been promoted to managing associate in the firm’s investment-funds group ...

The European Commission has fined the global pharmaceutical company Teva €462.6 million for abusing its dominant position to delay competition to its Copaxone medicine used for the treatment of ...

Matheson LLP has awarded one Maynooth University law student a six-month internship, while another has won a legal-writing prize. The two students were participants in the funds-law course delivered ...

A bill that creates a statutory right to the conclusion of court proceedings within a reasonable time has passed all stages in the Oireachtas. The bill provides for a declaration and, where ...

Solicitor Cian Smith is now chief legal and regulatory officer at Premier Lotteries Ireland, operator of the National Lottery, after acting in the role for the past year and a half. He joined the ...

In her opening address at the 24th Annual National Prosecutors’ Conference (25 November), the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Catherine Pierse highlighted the development of smartphones as one ...

Solicitor Joan Crawford, who now leads the Legal Aid Board, says that the work has thoroughly hooked her – though, as she reveals to Mary Hallissey, she never intended to remain so long in the same ...

Barrister Deirdre Malone has been appointed as the new director of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC). Malone (small picture) was executive director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust ...