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Such transformatory development obviously brings challenges as well as benefits. Among the challenges now facing Ireland is to develop a national transport and infrastructure programme worthy of our leading economic position. Another challenge is to develop a sensible and humane immigration policy, to balance Ireland's need for a growing educated workforce with a sensitivity to important issues of human rights.

Mason Hayes & Curran

Our firm is now positioned to offer a full service to business and government, and to institutions operating in Ireland. Over the past three years we have deliberately created new centres of excellence within Mason Hayes & Curran to serve all the legal needs of our client base. There is now virtually no area where we don’t offer and deliver rigorous, sophisticated and practical legal solutions to world class standards.

Values

To promote the development of our philosophy and business we have recently engaged in processes of client, market and self analysis. We did this to identify and focus on the core values which motivate our lawyers, and which are recognised by our clients and the market as comprising the Mason Hayes & Curran style and way of operating. We have identified three words as reflecting and representing our values, being:

• Approachable;

• Progressive; and

• Aligned.

In this issue of MHC Times there is an excellent article by our Director of Marketing and Business Development, John Hogg explaining what we mean by these words and the values they describe. The new mode of presentation of our corporate materials, logo and so on are designed to reflect our view of ourselves at the current stage of development of  our business.

New partners

I am delighted to announce that we have four new partners, two who have joined us from competitor law firms, and two promoted from within the ranks of our own senior associates. Justin McKenna (Corporate and Securities Law) and Christine O’Donovan (Financial Services) are our new lateral partner arrivals, two outstanding and market leading lawyers. The partners made up from our own ranks are Vanessa Byrne (Real Estate) and Maurice Phelan (Commercial Litigation and Insolvency). The addition of these four partners demonstrates the attractiveness of our firm as a career destination for exceptional young lawyers.

New senior associates

I am equally pleased to announce the appointment of four new senior associates from the ranks of our young lawyers. They are drawn from a range of legal disciplines within the firm, showing some of the diversity and balance of our practice. I congratulate Catherine Allen (Public and Government Law), Caroline Daly (Litigation), Connor Manning (Corporate) and Liz Ryan (Employment Law).

South Bank House

In Spring 2006 we will move to our new headquarters, South Bank House in Dublin’s regenerated docklands area. This move will mark the culmination of our business planning and development processes of the past three years. The building is designed with the health, safety and welfare of our staff in mind, to allow us all to deliver enhanced services to our clients.

To read on please download the attached MHC Times Issue.