Maura Connolly
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Band 2 : Employment
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About
Provided by Maura Connolly
Practice Areas
Maura is Partner and Head of the firm’s Dispute Resolution Law Department. She also leads the firm’s Employment & Employee Benefits Law Group. Maura’s practice includes advising employers and employees on all aspects of employment law including contentious and non-contentious matters. She has been involved in many commercial transactions and has considerable experience of employment law issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions, including transfer of undertakings issues.
Maura also advises on a contractual matters, development of policies and procedures, management of disciplinary, performance, absence and other processes. This includes regularly appearing in the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court and the Civil Courts. Data privacy and dealing with data access requests under GDPR is a feature of many cases in which we are involved. Most recently she has advised extensively on Covid-19 related issues, restructurings, redundancies and legislative changes.
Professional Memberships
Maura is a former Chair of the Law Society’s Employment and Equality Law Committee (2012 to 2015). She is also a member of the European Employment Lawyers Association, the Employment Law Association of Ireland, the Association of Pension Lawyers Ireland and the Health & Safety Lawyers Association of Ireland.
Maura also lectures to the Law Society’s Diploma in Employment law and has been appointed to act as mentor on the Law Society’s Masters programme for Employment Law
Chambers Review
Europe
Maura Connolly has considerable experience in discrimination cases, data protection issues and internal investigations. She provides additional expertise in the employment aspects of M&A and corporate transactions for domestic and international clients.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Maura is very responsive and pragmatic in her advice."
"Maura has a lot of knowledge, and nothing we ask for is too much trouble."
"Maura is very responsive and pragmatic in her advice."
"Maura has a lot of knowledge, and nothing we ask for is too much trouble."
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