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Irish officials fear “significant fines and reputational damage” as the European Commission edges closer to legal action. The Government has now set up a steering group to crack down on unauthorised extraction – but it is too late to stave off a court date?

Legal files examined by the review team show the council was warned as early as June 2023 that it faced an uphill battle to recover costs paid to consultants due to “numerous deficiencies” on its side.

The Oireachtas body challenged a 2024 enforcement notice issued by the data watchdog over how it handled a subject access request in 2018. The legal case is now settled but the DPC says that the original complaint process remains live.

The fast-growing Irish legal firm works with blue-chip multinationals. It has now been bought by an American augmented intelligence platform that recently raised $105m.

Mark Reihill has claimed in court he loaned €2 million to Stephane Fund but €1.3 million of it has not been repaid. Fund, a technology entrepreneur who previously ran a property company with his brother-in-law Brendan Mullin, is preparing his defence.

Amid claims and counterclaims, now $12 billion-valued Deel alleges its rival Rippling ran a campaign against it using its “Competitive Intelligence Department”. Rippling rejects these claims and says it has the "highest ethical standards."

Wolters Kluwer is buying the Irish legal software company to give it leg-up in generative AI. Brightflag’s trajectory over the last decade is key to understanding how the deal came to be.

Within 30 minutes of news of the ending of merging talks being announced, Eversheds Sutherland International said its Dublin office "is to be led by partner Pamela O’Neill".

The Dublin-based company, which develops AI tools for legal departments, is being bought out by Dutch IT giant Wolters Kluwer.

The High Court has reversed a Labour Court decision in favour of a former employee at Debenhams, a move that has implications for a further 800 former workers. The move comes following a successful appeal by the company’s liquidators.