Post-Qualification

For all our lawyers, we offer a comprehensive in-house training programme which centres around developing a balance of legal, business and people skills. Individuals are also encouraged to attend relevant external conferences and seminars. Our training programmes are mainly a combination of lectures, seminars, guest speakers and practical case studies.

We continually refine our development offering. In 2008 we became the first Irish law firm to run a customised executive education programme for our associate lawyers, in conjunction with Smurfit Business School. Our objective is to support the development of those lawyers who will become the next generation of legal and business leaders through enabling them to better connect with clients on strategic and business issues. The programme has been a resounding success and will run again.

Other programmes are delivered by our Partners and senior lawyers or internal specialists from the Training & Development, Know How, Business Development and Finance teams and focus on recent transactions or refresher training on a certain aspect of the law. Some are facilitated by external consultants who have significant experience of working with professional services and law firms. All our programmes are carefully selected to provide practical, timely and stimulating training which can be applied immediately to the participant’s role.

In addition to attendance at formal training events, we also recognise that valuable learning takes place by gaining practical experience on-the-job. Our Partners and senior lawyers are committed to developing more junior lawyers. As well as the informal mentoring that takes place on the job, we run an annual three day induction programme for all newly qualified corporate lawyers facilitated by our Partners. Similar programmes run in our Banking and Property departments.