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Full coverage: law firms

Inside Schillings’ Dublin expansion and its bet on reputation, tech and defamation

A year after opening its new Dublin office, Schillings explains the business of reputation management and how the firm reinvented itself to be more than legal advisers.

Hannah McCarthy
7th Jan, 2026 - 9 min read

“I’m not the type of person who’s doing tech for the sake of doing tech”

Mairéad Cullen has traded in telecoms for law, becoming McCann FitzGerald’s first CTO and shepherding the stalwart law firm into the AI age.

Jonathan Keane
23rd Oct, 2025 - 6 min read

Judge who called Hayes Solicitors to account for “blatantly incorrect letter” is now “entirely satisfied”

The judge accepted that Hayes behaved with integrity and acted as one would expect of an officer of the court.

Alice Chambers
11th Jul, 2025 - 4 min read

Eversheds Sutherland Ireland senior partner leaves as merger talks with William Fry continue

Pamela O’Neill, head of the litigation department at Eversheds Sutherland Ireland, is leaving. Nobody is saying where she is going, amid speculation she may help rebuild the international law firm in Ireland.

Tom Lyons
13th Mar, 2025 - 2 min read

Five months on from facilitating a transatlantic merger, Matheson sues multinational client

Heramba Electric was formed to bring together US stock market investors and German industrial assets into an Irish-registered company.

Thomas Hubert
23rd Dec, 2024 - 2 min read

From boardroom bust-ups to the rise of AI: 2023 delivered big for litigation lawyers

The Currency talks to Ireland's top law firms about how their disputes practices have mushroomed into multi-disciplinary teams that take on everything from billion-euro data privacy suits to the barter account at RTÉ.

Francesca Comyn
23rd Jan, 2024 - 17 min read

Combined revenue for Ireland’s ‘Big Seven’ law firms hits almost €1 billion for the first time

A new report reveals the estimated revenue of the biggest law firms in Ireland, lifting the opaque veil that typically covers their financial data.

Rosanna Cooney
19th Aug, 2022 - 3 min read

Revenge of the “dorky types”: Jeanne Kelly on tech, privacy, IP law and Browne Jacobson

Jeanne Kelly's specialism in technology, IP and data law once placed her in a small niche – until multinationals made Dublin a global tech centre. Now a founding partner of Browne Jacobson in Ireland, she discusses competition among law firms, GDPR and challenging the legal white boys' club.

Tom Lyons
11th Aug, 2022 - 8 min read

“Victimisation, defamation and termination of employment” – The law firm, the “rainmaker” and the exit deal tax battle

A lawyer at a blue-chip firm reached a settlement after claiming he was “victimised and defamed” when he raised internal concerns. In a dispute that has implications for hundreds of other partnerships, a separate battle emerged over its tax treatment.

Ian Kehoe
23rd Sep, 2021 - 10 min read

Shelters, structures, and service companies: How law firms caught the eye of the Irish tax authority

The Revenue Commissioners are examining a number of cases where partners in law firms have lowered their income tax bills by sheltering profits in service companies. How does it work? And what happens next?

Ian Kehoe
19th May, 2020 - 4 min read
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