In Pictures

Newly-elected Justice Minister Naomi Long has chaired her first meeting of the Criminal Justice Board (CJB).

Mills Selig welcomed clients and friends to its Belfast offices yesterday to celebrate Burns Night with a traditional evening of fine dining, poetry and a toast to the haggis. The corporate and property law firm treated guests to traditional Scottish music and dram of whisky in honour of the famous

Belfast-based Francis Hanna & Co Solicitors sponsored local man Garrett Curran on his charity fundraising expedition to the South Pole.

McCann FitzGerald has congratulated its newly-qualified solicitors on the beginning of their careers with the firm.

Mallon McCormick Solicitors has raised over £4,500 for NI Chest Heart and Stroke in a pilot run of the charity's will-writing initiative. Solicitors at the Maghera-based firm waived their fees for will writing services during November and instead invited clients to donate to NICHS.

Staff at A&L Goodbody have donated over 134 shoeboxes of goods to a Dublin homelessness charity's Christmas appeal.

Staff at Dublin-based Sherwin O'Riordan Solicitors have benefited from a seminar delivered by leading mediator Helen Kilroy. The firm, which specialises in advising SMEs, recognises the benefit of mediation as an alternative to litigation and has taken part in many mediations to resolve employment l

Volunteers from Arthur Cox have spent two days helping with food hamper packing and gift distribution for charity St Vincent de Paul.

President Michael D. Higgins has formally appointed new judges to the Supreme Court and the High Court.

Lawyers and campaigners discussed the human rights of refugees and asylum seekers last night after a series of film screenings jointly hosted by the Immigration Practitioners' Group (IPG) and Queen's University Belfast (QUB). Solicitor Sinead Marmion, secretary of the IPG, introduced the "Silent Cri

Staff at Comyn Kelleher Tobin (CKT) took part in the Run in the Dark in Cork to raise funds for the Mark Pollock Trust.

The Law Society of Northern Ireland hosted an early morning pilates class yesterday to mark World Mental Health Day.

The Irish-American Law Students Association and the International Law Society at Brooklyn Law School have hosted a panel on Brexit.

Barrister Nuala Butler SC and solicitor Barry Magee delivered a Dublin seminar tailored towards public bodies involved in decision-making that can be the subject of judicial review.

Dublin firm AMOSS Solicitors has welcomed six interns from DCU and NUI Galway for the next eight months.