The Law Society claims a "highly offensive" WhatsApp group did not contain references to any female students.

The Law Society says it's appalled to learn of inappropriate comments posted on a private messaging group by some of its students.

An Ennis solicitor stole €149,830 from 11 clients over a five-year period “in a robbing Peter to pay Paul’ enterprise, Ennis Circuit Court heard today.

Former High Court president, Nicholas Kearns, is chair of the Personal Injuries Commission which has found that personal injury payouts here are 4.4 times higher than in Britain.

Three Irish Examiner journalists have been honoured at the Law Society of Ireland's Justice Media Awards.

The President of the High Court has made orders directing that a website involved in a practice known as 'claims harvesting' be shut down.

A struck-off solicitor who had a deficit of €625,000 on a client account is not a fit person to be a member of the solicitors profession, the President of the High Court has held.

The Supreme Court will give judgment next week on the Motor Insurers’ Bureau of Ireland’s appeal over decisions it is potentially liable for claims brought against collapsed insurer Setanta.

The move to hold employment hearings behind closed doors could be in breach of constitutional requirement that justice should be done in public, an expert has warned.

Two Irish Examiner journalists have won a top prize at the annual Justice Media Awards.

A solicitor tried to defraud Revenue by underpaying €147,000 stamp duty due on a property transaction because a client persuaded him to do so, the High Court has heard.

Two solicitors overcharged by €340,000 for their work on administering the estate of a woman who left €14m to the St Vincent de Paul charitable society, the High Court has heard.

The director general of the Law Society Ken Murphy has defended the pay of more than €2,000 per week to the society’s elected president.

The Law Society has apologised in the High Court to a Kerry carpenter over an article which incorrectly stated that he had been certified insane.

The High Court has dismissed solicitor Gerald Kean’s appeal against a finding of professional misconduct arising out of his handling of a former client’s case.

The Law Society is warning that cuts to court services are now threatening the "very fabric of our justice system".

Employment rates of solicitors at the country’s top 20 legal firms grew by 7%, or 127, last year, confirming a strong year for the largest legal practices.

The director general of the Law Society has joined calls for a major overhaul of judicial appointments to ensure the system is free of political bias.

The Law Society of Ireland could face a class action for compensation by clients of Thomas Byrne, the solicitor jailed for committing one of the biggest frauds by a legal professional in the history of the State.

The Law Society claims that it has done everything in its power to help the victims of fraudster Thomas Byrne.

A former solicitor who stole €52m by fraudulently using his clients' homes to secure bank loans is due to be sentenced today.

One hundred and fifty six separate complaints were made against one solicitor over the past year, new figures provided by the Law Society show.

The theft and fraud trial of Thomas Byrne has heard of the day “everything went horribly wrong” for the former solicitor when one of his employees reported him to the authorities.

The Law Society is to deploy undercover agents around the country’s court venues in a bid to expose unscrupulous solicitors touting for business.

The president of the Law Society has advised its 14,000 members there is no Irish Medical Organisation (IMO)-type situation at the society.

The Law Society’s compensation fund incurred losses of over €2.24m in 2011 and 2010.

The inquest into the death of singer Amy Winehouse will be reheard, according to a spokesman for Camden Council.

A farm leader warned yesterday that solicitors cannot be allowed to introduce regulations that will ultimately benefit their own members at the expense of people who wish to transfer their property to the next generation.

Only one-in-five court judgments is ever satisfied, according to the Law Society of Ireland, leaving banks and the revenue commissioners hundreds of millions of euro out of pocket.

The High Court has struck off a Cork-based solicitor found by the Law Society’s disciplinary tribunal to have improperly used client monies to fund her property portfolio.

The President of the High Court has struck off a Dublin solicitor whose treatment of some of his clients was described as "an absolute disgrace".

LAWYERS are making “bogus” claims about threats to the independence of the profession in order to escape regulation, according to Justice Minister Alan Shatter.

There are growing calls for a no vote in the referendum on giving the Oireachtas powers to conduct inquiries.

THE High Court has frozen the assets of and suspended a solicitor whom it is alleged has €900,000 missing from his firms’ client accounts.

JUSTICE Minister Alan Shatter has said he intends to appoint a Legal Services Ombudsman to investigate complaints against solicitors and barristers.

THE number of law graduates training as solicitors has dropped by almost 40% in the last four years. Demand for university places on law courses has also fallen.

A 84-year-old retired lorry driver has today resolved his legal action over the Law Society's refusal to compensate him for more than €500,000 after his daughter, a solicitor, allegedly misappropriated money from the estate in which he was the main beneficiary.

A 84-YEAR-OLD retired lorry driver has brought a legal challenge over the Law Society’s refusal to compensate him for more than €500,000 after his daughter, a solicitor, allegedly misappropriated money from the estate in which he was the main beneficiary.

The Law Society's Regulation of Practice committee is strongly opposed to solicitor's firm with a deficit of more than €6.3m being allowed to continue to trade any longer, the High Court has heard.

The High Court has rejected a Law Society recommendation to shut down a family solicitors where one of the partners admits gambling away millions of euros of clients' money.