Appointments

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Northern Ireland personal injury firm JMK Solicitors has appointed 13 new associate directors across a number of departments. Steven Gilliland and Karl O’Hagan have been appointed as legal services associate directors.

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Philip Lee has launched a new financial services and investment funds offering through a strategic partnership with Aquest Advisory. The new practice will offer expert legal advice on a wide range of matters relevant to the financial services industry, including asset management, investment funds, f

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Legal and tax advisory firm Orbitus has announced four appointments as part of the "first wave" of a major expansion. The firm has welcomed Eoin Casey as head of litigation and Carmel O’Shea Maloney as head of legal for Beam, the firm's online conveyancing product.

Northern Ireland

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Northern Ireland personal injury firm JMK Solicitors has appointed 13 new associate directors across a number of departments. Steven Gilliland and Karl O’Hagan have been appointed as legal services associate directors.

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Sir Gary Hickinbottom has been appointed as chair of the UK public inquiry into the 1989 murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane by loyalist paramilitaries. Today's announcement from Northern Ireland secretary Hilary Benn is a major step forward for the inquiry announced last September.

Universities

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Matheson and University College Dublin have announced a new collaboration to support UCD Sutherland School of Law in the teaching and research of corporate governance and related law. The new corporate partnership will see the appointment of a new Matheson assistant professor in corporate governance

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Ailish Finnerty has had only had some six weeks to become accustomed to her role as the new chair at Arthur Cox. She has, though, an air of calm assurance — the consequence of her history with the firm, one that stretches back to her becoming a trainee there after taking a BCL and LLM at UCC a

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Wherever there is an Irish diaspora — and where is there not? — there will be St Patrick’s Day celebrations. This was the case earlier this month at the Hyatt Regency hotel in London when the London Irish Lawyers Association (LILA) gathered for its third annual St Patrick’s D

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Even by the standards of the bewilderingly swift advances in the social media arena, TikTok is a phenomenon. Launched in 2016, the app began its dizzying ascent to become a giant with more than 1.04 billion monthly active users, a scale of growth that took Instagram and Facebook almost a decade to a

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The nature of the law means that major modifications to the status quo come rarely and after long consideration. But while the wheel turns slowly, it’s hard to stop once in motion.  So, when October last year saw the introduction of new legal partnerships — which enable barristers a