The Gazette 1995

GAZETTE

MAY/JUNE 1995

Setting-Up in Practice Seminar

Hearty congratulations to Finola 0 'Hanlon who was recently made an associate of the Institute of Taxation having successfully completed all parts of the Institutes examinations. Finola is currently doing the Diploma in Property Tax course which is run by the Law Society and takes place over a twelve week period. The course is offered at weekends and is currently in its fifth run. To date, the diploma course has been offered in Limerick, Cork and Dublin. We are currently looking into running the course in the Mayo/Sligo region, likely to commence in the Autumn. If you are based in the Donegal/Sligo/Mayo region please let us know if you would be interested. Further enquiries from Finola O 'Hanlon or Harriet Kinahan in the Law School. ! on the track by Andrew Coonan (Charles E. Coonan & Co) as he finished eighth in the 10,000 metres while Eric O'Donnell (McCann I Fitzgerald) was fifth in the 5,000m. i Finally it would be wrong to finish without thanking our hosts U.C.C. especially as they are coached by none other than our own Ray Shanahan Solicitor (J.W. O'Donovan & Co.). Congratulations and thank you for a fine weekend to Ray and all in U.C.C. Also many thanks to the Education Committee for their financial contribution towards the teams participation at the Championships. John O'Connor

Pictured

at the

"Setting

up in Practice

Seminar"

were

(l-r):

Paul

Cagney,

Charleville;

Kate

Colbert,

Abbeyfeale;

John

S. O'Sullivan,

Carlow;

Mary

Hall,

Dublin;

Michael

Waters,

Galway;

John

Hayes,

Kilkenny;

Katherine

Hunter,

Dublin.

The Practice Management Committee recently ran a very successful Setting-Up in Practice Seminar for 17 participants aspiring to set-up in practice. The seminar was workshop based and lasted a complete day. Topics covered included, market analysis, the financial realities, marketing your practice, client care. Solicitors' Accounts Regulations etc. Participants were from all parts of the country and, for the most part, were solicitors who had just set-up in practice or who were contemplating this move. The seminar is designed to raise more questions than it answers and to act as a forum for putting solicitors at the same stage of their development in contact with one another. The Practice Management Committee intend running these seminars every three/four months.

Apprentice salary

Apprentices Record Breaking Perfnrmance

The revised form of indentures includes a covenant that during the period of in-office training the master must pay the apprentice a gross salary of not less than the amounts recommended by the Society from time to time. The current recommended gross salary scales are £115 per week (during the first six months), £125 per week (during the second six months) and £135 per week (during the remaining period). The new prescribed forms are available on request from the Law Society's Law School, Blackhall Place, Dublin 7. (DX 79 - Dublin; telephone 0 1 - 6 7 1 0200; telefax 01 - 671 0064)

The Law Society Apprentices Athletics Club once again turned in a remarkable performance in the Irish University Track and Field Championships on the 21st of April last in Cork. John Menton (Arthur Cox Solicitors) was the outstanding athlete of the meeting breaking two Championship records and winning four Gold medals. John shattered the old Discus record by four metres with a throw of 52.38m while he also bettered his own record in the Weight for Distance with a throw of 10.98 metres. John's other titles were in the Shot Putt (14.39m) and the Hammer throw (41.80m).

The Society was also well represented

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