Connor Beaton

Women at Ireland’s largest law firms are earning up to 61 per cent less than their male colleagues, figures released under Ireland’s gender pay gap reporting law suggest.

When President Higgins last month made an unprecedented political intervention in defence of Irish neutrality, Conor Gallagher must have been jumping for joy. The Irish Times correspondent’s new book – Is Ireland Neutral? The Many Myths of Irish Neutrality – could not have been better ti

Solicitor firms in Northern Ireland have been left “shell-shocked” after being told they face HMRC enforcement action if they do not pay up to tens of thousands of pounds in back pay to trainee solicitors, Irish Legal News has learned. For years, many, if not most, trainee solicitors in

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has told solicitor firms they are “free to arrive at their own view” on trainee solicitors’ entitlement to the national minimum wage while warning of the risks of disregarding its advice. Irish Legal News first reported on discontent among senior lawyers after the

Ireland’s biggest law firms made little to no progress on closing the gender pay gap in the first year since mandatory reporting began, according to analysis by Irish Legal News. Matheson, A&L Goodbody, Arthur Cox, McCann FitzGerald, Mason Hayes & Curran and William Fry are among businesses