Michael Kennedy

Practice Areas

Michael is a Partner in the Byrne Wallace Shields LLP Employment Law team. He has specialised in employment law for over 35 years and is consistently ranked as one of Ireland’s top employment lawyers.

He was Chairman of the Law Society’s Employment and Equality Committee from 2010 to 2012 and is the former Secretary of the Irish Society for Labour Law and a former member of the Executive Committee of the Employment Law Association of Ireland.

When Law Awards were introduced in Ireland in 2012, Michael was named as Ireland’s first Employment Lawyer of the Year.

He is Co-author of the Law Society’s Employment Law Manual (published by Oxford University Press 2011) and subsequently authored the Law School’s text on Transfer of Undertakings Law (or “TUPE”, to use the UK acronym).

Professional Memberships

Dublin Solicitors Bar Association, Law Society of Ireland, Chairman of the Law Society’s Employment and Equality Committee, Employment Law Association of Ireland.