Jeanne Kelly has seen a lot of changes over two decades as an intellectual property, privacy and tech lawyer. She remembers sitting at home in Dún Laoghaire at the turn of the millennium. She was a young lawyer and part of a small team within A&L Goodbody that was set up to tackle Y2K. Also known as the millennium bug, Y2K, was a fear that developed in the late 1990s that the world’s computers would crash when they were unable to recognise the year 2000. “I was afraid to go out on New Year’s Eve,” Kelly recalls. “So I was…

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