The Gazette 1996

GAZETTE

APRIL / MAY 1996

Brothers In Law

Blackhall Place on 17th April, 1996, and he congratulated Geraldine Hynes, John Costello and Dudley Potter who had organised it.

10. New Motion on Re commended Salary

Notice was given of the following motion for consideration at the Council meeting on 14th June, 1996:- "That the recommended salary for a newly-qualified solicitor shall be based on a scale of £16,000 to £19,000 per annum." Compensation Fund Payments Out - April, 1996 The following claim amounts were admitted by the Compensation Fund Committee and approved for payment by the Council at its meeting in April 1996. P r opo s e r: Philip Joyce Seconder: Niall Farrell

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The O'Connor

Brothers

- Left to Right:

Tony, John, Tom and Pat pictured

at the

recent

Competition Law Source Book.

launch of Tony's

Mayo where he is the principal in the family firm of P. O'Connor & Son which was founded by the brothers' grandfather and continued by their father, Thomas V. O'Connor, who was President of the Law Society in 1972- 73. Pat is also following in his father's Law Society footsteps where he is a Council Member and is now in his third year as Chairman of the Education Committee. He was the Society's Junior Vice President in 1993-94.

There used to be four O'Connor brothers in practice as solicitors but now there are only three. That is because Tony, who had been a solicitor in Arthur Cox, in the Legal Department of Aer Lingus and subsequently with Rory O'Donnell & Co., decided in the late 1980's that what he really wanted to be was a barrister. Accordingly he jumped the wall and was admitted at the Bar where he is practising happily. He has had for many years a particular interest in EU and Irish Competition Law and it was the launch of Tony's Competition Law Source Book (publishers: Round Hall.Sweet & Maxwell) which was the occasion which brought the O'Connor brothers together for the above photo. Tony's brother, John is a sole practitioner in Dublin and is currently a member of the Council of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association. Their brother Tom, by contrast, is a partner in one of the largest firms in the country, A & L Goodbody, where he practices mainly in the area of Commercial Property Law. Eldest brother Pat practised with Hayes & Sons in Dublin in 1975 and then went home to Swinford, Co.

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12,312.14

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