Law Society of Ireland announces that dual-qualified lawyers must be based in Ireland to gain practising certificates.

Saturday 20 February was the 50th day since Boris Johnson’s Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) came into effect. Anyone expecting it to settle all questions, or even most of the details, of how we will do business with the EU from now on will be mightily disappointed.

New Irish rules prevent dual-qualified lawyers practising in Ireland without a physical presence in the country.

Regardless of a deal or no-deal Brexit, the current political uncertainties are challenging the UK's position as the premier location for resolving disputes. Commercial courts have already opened in Paris and Amsterdam, with proceedings conducted entirely in English and expressly aimed at competing with the UK.

The Brexit agreement, greeted by lawyers with “sighs of relief”, had led to a “much more clunky world” for legal services, with important issues like privilege unresolved, the president of the Law Society of England and Wales said yesterday.

Leaving the single market will come as a huge blow to the services sector. Rather than acknowledging that fact, our ruling class have opted to press on.

As the UK attempts to join the Lugano Convention, questions are being asked about London's position as a litigation and arbitration centre.

Kirkland & Ellis has nailed its European antitrust ambitions to the mast in the wake of the UK’s exit from the European Union to launch an office in Brussels.

Hogan Lovells is to open in Dublin joining a procession of international law firms to set up shop there in response to Brexit.

Ashurst is the latest international law firm to establish an office in Dublin due to Brexit, following in the footsteps of, among others, Dentons, Burgess Salmon, DAC Beachcroft, DLA Piper, Pinsent Masons and Fieldfisher.

Carolyn Fairbairn of CBI says her ‘really big disappointment’ was the lack of help for British services in the potential deal