ByrneWallace get top ranking in Employment Law
Tuesday, 26 June 2012ByrneWallace get top ranking in Employment Law
May is proving to be a fruitful month for the Employment Law team at ByrneWallace. On 4 May, Head of Employment, Michael Kennedy, received the Employment Law Team/Lawyer of the Year award at the inaugural National Irish Bank Irish Law Awards. Less than a week later, on 10 May, when Chambers Europe released their 2012 Awards for Excellence, the team received a No. 1 ranking.
Earlier in the year, ByrneWallace's Employment Law team also received a No. 1 ranking from Legal 500.
While the National Irish Bank Law Awards are new to the Irish legal scene, Chambers and Legal 500 have been naming the world’s leading lawyers for more than 20 years and the Employment Law team at ByrneWallace have consistently secured No 1 rankings from both.
In the recently released 2012 rankings, Chambers' sources described ByrneWallace as "a centre of excellence for employment law”. Kennedy and his partners, Michelle Ní Longáin and Elaine Kelly, were named among Ireland’s top employment lawyers, while the firm's Gary Byrne was named as one of the country's "senior statesman" in the employment law field.
Kennedy, pictured below with the National Irish Bank 2012 Irish Law Award, is "delighted" by the continuing recognition of the firm's top ranking position in employment law. "We strive to go that extra yard for our clients. We are lucky in that we have built up a vast bank of experience going right back to the 1980s when we were among a very small group who were practising exclusively in the area of employment law. We are able to draw on that experience now to the benefit of our clients and hopefully, our efforts will continue to be recognised into 2013 and beyond".
In the first five months of this year, a ByrneWallace client has already secured the largest ever award in an employment equality case, while the firm is gearing up with the union UNITE, for a European Court of Justice hearing in the Waterford Crystal pensions case, involving claims exceeding €100m.
