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GAZETTE
N E W S
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1994
S t a f f C h a n g e s i n t h e L a w S c h o o l
Albert
Power
Law School Principal
Albert Power,
former Assistant
Director of Education, has been
appointed Principal of the Law School
following the retirement last June of
Professor
Richard Woulfe.
Albert graduated with a BCL from
UCD in 1980 and was admitted to the
Roll of Solicitors in 1983. He
obtained a first class honours Masters
Degree in Equity from UCD in 1984
and served as Education Officer in the
Law Society from 1984 to 1986.
Following a period of employment
with the Federated Union of
Employers (now IBEC) and some time
in private practice, he returned to the
Society as Assistant Director of
Education in 1989 and since then has
been active in establishing a new
examination system for the
Professional and Advanced Courses
and revising many of the Law
Society's procedures particularly in
relation to apprentices.
Noting that his appointment as Law
School Principal coincides with a time
of significant debate about the future
of legal education and training, Albert
Power says: "I am committed to the
highest standards of excellence in our
profession in these challenging times
and for the future. The Society's own
Law School and the training through
apprenticeship must be to the
forefront in achieving the aspiration of
excellence."
Harriet
Kinahan
Apprenticeship Officer
Former Education Officer,
Harriet
Kinahan,
has been appointed
Apprenticeship Officer with effect
from 1 August. After graduating in
Law from Trinity College Dublin in
1983, Harriet Kinahan spent a number
of years involved in community and
youth work before being admitted to
the Roll of Solicitors in 1991. She
achieved a Masters Degree in
European Integration at the University
of Limerick in 1992 and joined the
Law Society as Education Officer.
She regards her new assignment as an
essential element of the Law Society's
policy of providing better services and
support to apprentices and sees an
important part of her role as assisting
apprentices with any difficulties that
may arise during their periods of in-
office training. She says: "an
important development is the work
that is being undertaken on producing
a training manual that will provide a
framework for masters and
apprentices to ensure that apprentices
obtain sufficient and worthwhile
experience in all the important areas
of practice. The manual will also
enable them to monitor and evaluate
the apprenticeship training."
John
Houlihan
Education Officer
John Houlihan
replaces Harriet
Kinahan as Education Officer. John
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