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 ...

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

Legislation that changes the law on the duty of care owed by businesses, community groups and event organisers to visitors and recreational users has been commenced. The legislation amends the ...

COVID-19 has prompted lawyers to rapidly familiarise themselves with the legal framework governing virtual closings and remote signings in a remote work environment. There is no doubt that COVID-19 ...

Every solicitor complains about the price of their professional indemnity insurance at renewal time. However, the chair of the PII Committee, Bill Holohan SC, notes that premium renewal prices have ...

Applications are now open for Law Society 2025 Practising Certificates (PC). The Law Society PC renewal process is now fully online with back-up by email, web chat and telephone. The deadline for ...

Solicitor Gary Daly says that recent events underscore the pressing need for the proposed Incitement to Hatred Bill, but barrister Laoise de Brún argues that the measure risks criminalising “ordinary, ...

EU member states have until 16 June 2024 to transpose the CSRD into their national laws, says Richard Kelly. The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) entered into force on 5 ...

Cork-based solicitor Barry MacCarthy has become the 153rd President of the Law Society of Ireland. Barry will serve a one-year term as president of the 24,000-strong Irish solicitors’ profession until ...

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 ...

A new law aimed at providing stronger protection for consumers and modernising consumer law came into effect today (29 November). The Consumer Rights Act 2022 was signed into law by the President on 7 ...

The first board of newly established State body, Tailte Éireann, has been announced. Darragh O’Brien (Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage) has selected David McGarry as chair of the ...