Disputes & Investigations Lawyer
Disputes & Investigations Lawyer
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Our Disputes & Investigations group is the leading disputes and investigations team in the Irish market. We specialise in resolving complex high value and cross border commercial disputes through litigation arbitration mediation negotiation and expert determination. We combine this contentious experience with our leading regulatory and white collar expertise to advise on the most complex challenging and high profile corporate crises for our Irish and international client base.
Our clients include some of the largest Irish and global companies across a broad range of industry sectors including tech financial services life sciences real estate asset management manufacturing automotive retail agri-food and gaming. To an ever increasing extent our clients are required to deal with regulatory enquiries in parallel with actual or threatened civil litigation and an evolving legal landscape.
We have extensive experience in designing and implementing legal strategies to respond to these types of complex mandates for our clients including leading engagements with a range of regulators overseeing internal investigations providing strategic board advice managing stakeholder relationships protecting the companys reputation and assisting with any employment fallout alongside managing litigation risk. Our team has particular focus on contentious mandates where there is a consumer or customer angle including product liability litigation and multi-party actions.
We currently have opportunities for bright personable and enthusiastic lawyers to join our dynamic team within our market leading firm. We would like to hear from any interested solicitors whether practicing locally or considering a move to Ireland with 0-3 years relevant PQE gained within a large medium or boutique corporate law firm. Successful applicants should have experience or interest in some or all of the following areas:
- Advising on disputes and contentious issues for technology companies.
- Advising on business critical commercial disputes and adopting innovative legal strategies to dealing with claims brought by cohorts of customers.
- Advising on deploying various methods of dispute resolution including litigation mediation expert determination and arbitration as the most mainstream.
- Advising on white collar crime issues impacting corporates (including AML fraud bribery/corruption whistleblowing sanctions issues money laundering and corporate offences).
- Engaging with regulators (for example the Revenue Commissioners the Criminal Assets Bureau the Data Protection Commission the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission and the Health & Safety Authority) in response to all forms of regulatory enquiries including information requests investigations and in the context of dawn raids.
Benefits
At A&L we pride ourselves on the high calibre of our employees. We place strong emphasis on career development and enabling our people to excel in their careers. Our work environment is friendly professional and collaborative. As well as working for a market leading team we offer:
- A competitive remuneration package
- Access to the firms marquee training and development programmes delivered through the ALG School of Business and Law
- Discretionary performance bonus
- Pension and health insurance contribution wellbeing contribution life assurance subsidised gym restaurant and coffee shop.
- Hybrid working policy
A&L Goodbody (ALG) is a leading Irish law firm with five international offices in Dublin Belfast London New York and San Francisco. There are currently 120 partners and over 900 employees. The strong international and domestic business community in Ireland forms a valuable part of the ALG client base. ALG is incredibly proud to be recognised as the leading Irish law firm in the Chambers and Partners Europe 2024 Guide with the highest number of Band 1 practice area rankings. ALG is also ranked as a top tier law firm in The Legal 500 EMEA Guide 2024 and the IFLR1000 Guide 2024. The firm is consistently ranked number one in the Irish market and on a European level.
A sample of other recent notable awards include:
- Awarded the prestigious Company of the Year award at the National Diversity & Inclusion Awards 2025 hosted by the Irish Centre for Diversity.
- Recognised by Mergermarket as the #1 M&A legal advisor in Ireland by deal volume for 2024
- Winner of the Best Client Service Award by the Lawyer European Awards
- Future of Legal Services Innovation Award winners 2024
- Awarded the Investors in Diversity Silver Mark in 2024 by the Irish Centre for Diversity
- Most Popular Graduate Recruiter in Law 2024 by GradIreland (for 13 consecutive years)
- Law firm of the year Republic of Ireland 2023 at The Lawyer European Awards
- Irish Law Firm of the Year 2023 at the Chambers Europe Awards
- One of the top 50 most innovative law firms in Europe 2023 by the Financial Times
- Best client support 2023 by the Managing Partners Forum
- Business Working Responsibly Mark 2023
ALG has a reputation for leading the way in continuously developing its service to clients and internally to its business. This is delivered through the use of new processes ways of working innovative use of technology and marketing-leading business service teams.
Accessibility
If you require any accommodation during the recruitment process please contact us and we will work with you to ensure the best possible candidate experience.
We value a diverse and inclusive workforce and are an equal opportunities employer.
Contact
If you would like to discuss opportunities within our Disputes and Investigations Team in confidence please contact Ailbhe McCann or Rory Sullivan .
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Employment Type
Full-Time
