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GAZETTE
MARCH 1993
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
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.
The conference, which starts with
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.
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HI J.'L
NAlumus Mutari!
earn public house:
Temple of the Bai
Development Zone
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.