Full coverage: Legal

David Fox, who helped build Kirkland & Ellis into a top law firm, now sees AI as the industry’s future, writes Lauren Thomas, The Wall Street Journal.

From semiconductor physics to the courtroom, Fred Logue has emerged as the architect of Ireland’s most significant strategic climate litigation. In an in-depth interview, he reflects on his accidental path to the law, the high-profile detour into planning judicial reviews, and his renewed focus on putting his clients on the State's climate agenda.

The promise of eConveyancing first appeared in a Government bill 20 years ago. The jury is out on efforts involving estate agents, solicitors, banks, and many others to shorten often archaic home transfers.

A judicial review challenges a new state service representing vulnerable children in Ireland’s courts, calling it “repugnant to Bunreacht na hÉireann, void and of no effect”.

Cathal O’Connor has weeks to put his business affairs in order before starting a custodial sentence for the violent assault of three teens. The Currency examines the scale of the property network, multi-million euro assets, and projects in the pipeline.

Trial lawyers and jury consultants say an erosion of trust in the justice system, more rigid viewpoints and starker political divides have made pitched juror battles more common, writes Corinne Ramey, The Wall Street Journal.

Released records show Greyhound Racing Ireland officials were subject to physical threats during a welfare inspection last year as the agriculture department prepares legal cases in three investigations.

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.