The Gazette 1993

MARCH 1993

GAZETTE

the Half-Yearly General Meeting of the Society on the afternoon of Thursday 20 May, runs until Sunday 23 May. The conference package which includes three nights bed and breakfast, two lunches, two dinners (including the conference gala banquet) and an attractive leisure programme, is only £195 per person sharing and is tax deductible. Special rates are available to solicitors who have qualified in the past five years. Further information is available on request to Mary Kinsella at the Law Society, Blackhall Place, Dublin 7. Please note that the closing date for bookings is 31 March, 1993. •

and our clients." Robert Pierse has seen many changes in legal profession since he founded the practice in Listowel in 1962 and believes in the need to keep responding to the constantly changing demands of law practice particularly the need to keep abreast of changes in the law and to speed up and improve the service to clients. A question and answer session will follow their presentations to the conference allowing plenty of time for a full discussion of any points raised by conference delegates.

working out what on earth all the quality jargon means!" And what of the paper work and bureaucracy in documenting quality procedures? "Not as bad as preparing the documentation for litigation on a six week long case!", he retorts. Like Patrick Hayes, Robert Pierse, Managing Partner of Pierse and Fitzgibbon, Solicitors, also scored a first being the first firm of solicitors in Ireland to obtain the quality mark. Was it worth the effort? He is unequivocal: "there has been an extremely favourable reaction," he says. "Having a quality management system in place has greatly improved communications between ourselves

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HI J.'L NAlumus Mutari!

The cartoon is a recent entry by Max Abrahamson, solicitor, Consultant to McCann FitzGerald, to the Irish Architectural Archive's dreamhouse exhibition. The translation of the signboard being covered is "we shall not change", and of the renlacement signboard is "let justice be done though the heavens fall"! The drawing anticipates publication in the near future of Max Abrahamson's construction contract system which uses graphics and software to supplement its 5,000 words.