Role: Partner

Practice Areas:
Litigation and dispute resolution.

Patrick graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1996 and qualified as a solicitor in 2000. He joined us from a large Dublin firm in 2007 as a Senior Associate in our Litigation and Dispute Resolution department.

He specialises in commercial litigation and dispute resolution and has extensive experience in large commercial trials, including litigation in Ireland’s commercial court. His practice areas include national and international contract disputes, employment, media and product liability law.

He has worked for government departments and semi-state bodies and advised a client for two years in the course of a hearing before the Moriarty Tribunal. He also has extensive experience in judicial review proceedings involving both public and private sectors.

From 2004 to 2006 he was the legal adviser to the Article 35 Committee of the Oireachtas on the impeachment of Judge Brian Curtin.

He also has wide experience in pre-publication advice for both newspapers and other publications and has worked with most major independent television production companies and has regularly reviewed new programmes in advance of broadcast as well as advising during the development process. Recently, he was a member of the National Newspapers of Ireland Legal Advisory Committee on the proposed changes to the defamation laws contained in the report of the Legal Advisory Group on Defamation.

From 2004 to 2007, he was the Legal adviser to RTE’s “CrimeCall”, the legal adviser to RTE’s “Seoige & O’Sé” from 2006 to 2007 and the legal adviser to RTE’s “The Big Bite” for its entire duration. He is currently advising on “The Consumer Show”, due to air on RTE in the autumn of 2010.

Qualifications:
Solicitor, Law Society of Ireland, 2000
Bachelor of Law (LL.B.), Trinity College Dublin, 1996

Publications, Lecturing and Seminars:

Patrick contributes regularly to the national press (Irish Independent, Sunday Business Post, Irish Examiner, Irish Times), Business & Finance magazine.
From 2004 to present, he wrote monthly legal updates for International Law Office, an organisation that through its website provides legal analysis and updates to lawyers working worldwide.

Regular contributor to e-bulletins delivered by Complinet, a provider of compliance solutions for the financial services industry.

Regularly publish articles in the retail trade media, including in publications such as Shelflife and Licensing World.

Have given several such lectures and seminars on a range of legal subjects. Additionally, have given seminars to a number of private and public-sector clients including (most recently):-

• Tesco Ireland (in relation to employment issues);
• Nutricia Ireland (in relation to how to best address complaints from consumers);
• Bayer Group (in relation to employment issues).