Kate Barton is the global chief executive of the law firm Dentons, which has a growing presence in Ireland. She talks about her Irish links, plans to double in size in Dublin, and running a firm of 12,000 people.
Under cross-examination, the US businessman denied "hoodwinking" US poultry farm owner Mary Wenning around her Irish property interests or of concealing his part-ownership of the Ipas centre at Dundrum House.
With the lucrative years long gone, the last surviving owners of legacy newspaper businesses face an uncertain future, while the biggest player in the market continues buying titles and sees no problem with complete dominance.
The meeting to liquidate the company behind a Meath housing estate proved as contentious as the project has been controversial.
The jury has finished hearing evidence in the defamation claim by two human rights lawyers against businessman Denis O'Brien and his PR spokesman James Morrissey, who finished his testimony on Tuesday.
The main Irish banks and HSE-funded Safeguarding Ireland have lobbied the Department of Health on stronger protections for vulnerable adults from financial abuse.
Big hitters like Dómhnal Slattery were convinced there was serious money to be made in Ireland's local newspaper business. But as ambitious new players emerged and legacy owners wrestled with huge offers, a brutal financial reckoning lay ahead.
James Morrissey, Denis O'Brien's spokesman, has told a jury that a "fractious history” between republicans and INM was behind a 2016 media report commissioned by a Sinn Féin MEP and criticising the businessman.
The crux of the EPA case rests on the courts' interpretation of what is an area of active peat extraction. The decision will have ramifications for its enforcement activity and on the under-pressure midlands peat industry.
Frenzied auctions for regional titles made millionaires out of many and put most of the buyers on the road to bankruptcy. Part one of a three-part series reveals how The Irish Times dodged two bullets.
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