Holding onto quality solicitors has become one of the toughest parts of running a law firm right now so there’s never been a better time to discuss team retention. Whether you’re a two-partner practice or a much bigger firm, everyone’s fishing in the same pond for experienced solicitors, eager trainees, and legal support staff who
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Are you using AI tools in your legal practice? If not, what’s holding you back? We have all heard of the phrase, “Time is the enemy” and for solicitors, this is certainly true. Juggling client demands, running from the office to court, keeping on top of compliance (including CPD points and GDPR requirements) and of
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In March, we sat down with Margaret Horan from Currencies Direct – a currency specialist that has been working with Irish solicitors for nine years and is the preferred currency partner for the Law Society of Ireland and the Law Society of Northern Ireland – to talk through exactly these scenarios, and what a better process actually looks like.
In this edition of our Solicitor Spotlight series, SGN Member Support Manager Sarah Hudson sits down with Laura Croke, founder of Croke Medical Law – a boutique medical negligence firm based in Cork, serving clients right across Ireland.
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AI, integration, and the firms pulling ahead AI use across UK and Ireland law firms is now near-universal. Nearly 9 in 10 legal professionals use the technology in some capacity, with 70% adopting it within the past year alone. For a profession that tends to move carefully on new technology, that’s a remarkable pace. And
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At Solicitors Growth Network, one of our long-term goals over the last number of years was to host an SGN Women in Law Forum – an opportunity to bring female solicitors from across Ireland for a day of learning, connection and honest conversations about what it really means to be a woman in the legal
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Life is busy no matter what your profession, but particularly for the legal profession, time management skills are an essential part of practice. And with the summer fast approaching, it’s only natural everyone wants to be as productive as possible in the office so that they can make the most of the sunshine. Whatever the
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Springtime puts a pep in our step in more ways than one – and it’s the time of year when people start preparing for a charity run that may be taking place over the summer months. The easy part is signing up; the hard part is everything that happens after that. While some are seasoned
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In this edition of our Solicitor Spotlight series, SGN founder Catherine Tobin sits down with employment law solicitor Terence O’Sullivan. Based in Cork, Terence has built one of the only practices in Cork city and county dedicated specifically to employment law.
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In the first blog of this series to mark International Women’s Day 2026, we looked at some of the trailblazers of women in the legal profession in Ireland. From Mary Heron Dorothea, the first woman to join the Roll of Solicitors, to Helena Early, the first practising female solicitor in Ireland, to Frances Kyle and
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