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SUMMARY:Introductory Course on Irish Law\, Society\, Business and Trade (in Ireland)
DESCRIPTION:  \nIntroductory Course on Irish Law\, Society\, Business and Trade \nIn Ireland\nMay 7 – 13\, 2025\nOverview \nAn introduction to the Irish legal and constitutional system\, EU Law\, fundamentals of civil and criminal law\, as well as more advanced topics to include immigration law\, human rights\, international law and environmental law\, brand rights\, and intellectual property. The goal of this program is to provide participants with a deeper understanding of contemporary Irish law and business practices\, international law and economic relations\, and to enhance the practitioner’s ability to deal with Irish-American clientele and emerging legal issues between the United States and Ireland and/or the EU. \nCLE Agenda\n*All CLE Hours are Anticipated \nMay 8\, 2025\n9:30-10:30 am\nCLE: 60 minutes – 1.0 CLE hours*\nThe Irish Legal System & Continuing Legal Education\nOverview of the Irish legal system\, constitutional law\, legal education in Ireland\, higher education law\, comparative law\, sources of law\, court structures\, and legal procedures\, the research of law.\n\nPresenter: TP Kennedy\, Education Director\, Law Society of Ireland\nLocation: Law Society of Ireland\, Dublin\, Ireland\n4:30-6:00 pm\nCLE: 90 minutes – 1.5 CLE hours*\nThe Irish Judiciary and Access to Justice in Ireland\nSession includes the organization of Irish Courts\, regulation of law practice in Ireland\, role of the Bar Association\, Deontology\, Ethics and ethical codes\nPresenters: Chief Executive Officer Ciara Murphy and Representatives of the Bar of Ireland\nLocation: The Bar of Ireland and Four Courts\, Dublin\, Ireland\n7:00-8:00 pm\nCLE: 60 minutes – 1.0 CLE hours*\nIreland’s Economic Ascent: Successes\, the Housing Conundrum & Legal Challenges\nTopics: Tax Law\, EU Law\, Foreign Investment\, IP\, Housing Laws and Housing Crisis\, Social Welfare\, Tech Sector\nPresenters: Ronan Lyons\, Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin; Moderator: Daniel Perez\nLocation: The Bull & Castle\, Dublin\, Ireland\nMay 9\, 2025\n9:30 – 10:30 am\nCLE: 60 minutes – 1.0 CLE hours*\nA Century of Irish Censorship: The Prohibitions\, the Battles\, the Legacy\nThis session includes: Freedom of Expression\, Censorship\, Constitutional Law\, Human Rights\, Intellectual Property\nPresenters: Jana Fischerova; Moderator: Daniel Perez\nLocation: EPIC Museum\, Dublin\, Ireland\n11:30 am – 12:30 pm\nCLE: 60 minutes – 1.0 CLE hours*\nImmigration Law & Society: the Irish Immigrant Experience\nA program featuring: Immigration Law\, Procedural Law\, Human Rights\, State & Society\nPresenters: Nathan Mannion; Moderator: Daniel Perez\nLocation: EPIC Museum\, Dublin\, Ireland\n1:00-2:00 pm\nCLE: 60 minutes – 1.0 CLE hours*\nIrish Whiskey Regulation and Protecting Brand Rights\nThe session explores Intellectual Property\, Brand protection in the EU\, the regulation of alcohol in Ireland\, denomination of origin\, commercial law\, contracts\, trademark and trade dress.\nPresenters: Jack Teeling: Moderator: Daniel Perez\nLocation: Teelings Distillery\, Dublin\, Ireland\nMay 12\, 2025\n1:30-3:00 pm\nCLE: 90 minutes – 1.5 CLE hours*\nThe Bar of Northern Ireland & Jurisdiction and Organization of the Royal Courts of Justice\nUK Judiciary\, Structure and Traditions of the Bar\, Legal Profession Requirements\, Inns of Court\, Barrister requirements\, Legal Practice in the UK\, The British Legal System\, Hierarchy of the United Kingdom Courts\, Organization\, functioning and jurisdiction of the Royal Courts\, Judicial Career\nPanel: Donal Lunny KC and Representatives of the Royal Courts of Justice\nLocation: The Bar of Northern Ireland & Royal Courts of Justice\, Belfast\, Ireland\n  \nPRESENTER INFORMATION:\nTP Kennedy\nDirector of Education at the Law Society of Ireland. He has been with the Law Society of Ireland for almost 29 years\, having started as a legal education co-coordinator and has been the Director of Education since September 1999. For 25 years now he has been the Editorial Advisor of the Hibernian Law Journal as well. Before this\, he also worked as a Solicitor at McCann FitzGerald for almost 5 years. He obtained his LLB in Law from the Trinity College in Dublin and he also has a diploma in Theology and Philosophy from the Milltown Institute. \nCiara Murphy\nCiara Murphy is the Chief Executive of The Bar of Ireland since November 2014. She supports the Bar Council in defining its strategic priorities and goals and is accountable to the Council for delivering the expected performance results defined by its annual operating plan. \nRonan Lyons\nRonan is a Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on housing markets\, urban economics and economic history. Ronan is the Director of Trinity Research in Social Sciences\, a hub of over 300 research active social scientists in Trinity\, and also Associate Director and Data Lead at the Centre for Economics\, Politics and History\, a joint research hub between Trinity and Queen’s University Belfast\, funded by the North-South Research Programme of the Government of Ireland. Rona is an internationally recognised expert on housing markets and housing price indices. Since 2004\, he has been the author of the Daft.ie Reports\, the longest-running sale and rental prices in Ireland. Since 2017\, he \nhas worked\, on behalf of the IMF\, training policymakers in South America\, Central and Eastern Europe  and Central Asia on how to measure housing price trends. I have also worked with numerous individual countries — including Bolivia\, Iraq\, Jordan\, Mongolia\, Nepal\, Ukraine\, Uzbekistan and Vietnam —  building local expert capacity. Ronan is an active contributor to policy debates\, especially on the topic of housing\, and his research and commentary feature regularly in the media\, both nationally and internationally. Nationally\, he is a columnist at TheCurrency\, having previously written for the Sunday Business Post and the Sunday Independent. Internationally\, he is regularly interviewed on the Irish economy — past examples include the BBC\, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\, YLE (Finland)\, the Christian Science Monitor\, the Financial Times\, Sky News\, the New York Times and The Economist. From 2021 to 2024\, he was a member of Ireland’s Housing Commission\, and for the period 2017-2022\, he was a Board Member of Ireland’s Higher Education Authority. Ronan has been a Council Member of the Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (SSISI) since 2017 and was Honorary Secretary for 2018-2021. From 2016 to 2022\, I was on the Organising Committee of the Dublin Economic Workshop. \nRonan has written a number of book chapters\, including for the Economy of Ireland textbook\, and in 2011\, he was editor\, with Ed Burke\, of Next Generation Ireland. Together with his co-authors\, Rowena Gray and Jason Barr\, Ronan is writing Rent & The City\, a history of the (un)affordability of housing in New York over the last centuries. Commissioned by Columbia University Press\, it is due out in late 2025. \nNathan Mannion\nNathan currently serves as the Head of Exhibitions and Programmes at EPIC The Irish Emigration  Museum. A frequent contributor to the Irish Times newspaper and Irish Lives Remembered magazine\, he also authored ‘The Irish and the World’ published by Scala in 2022. He is a Heritage Studies graduate of Atlantic Technical University (ATU) where he specialised in Museum Studies and completed an MA in Arts Management and Cultural Policy at the University College Dublin in 2020. Originally from Carlow he has previously worked with the national Heritage Council’s Museum Standards Programme for Ireland and as Deputy Curator of Rothe House Museum & Gardens. He has served on the Irish board of the   International Council of Museums (ICOM) since 2018 and was elected Chair in 2024\, having formerly served as Secretary and Membership Secretary. In addition to his work with ICOM he is also the Irish representative on the international Migration Museums Network (MMN) and a member of the  Europeana network. \nJana Fischerova\nJana was born in Hradec Králové (Czech Republic). She is a graduate of Palacký University\, Olomouc (Czech Republic)\, where she completed a BA & MA in Czech Philology\, and a BA & MA in English Philology; and of University College Dublin\, where she was awarded a PhD in Anglo-Irish Literature (in 2011). Her doctoral thesis was a comparative study of Literary Censorship in Ireland and Czechoslovakia. Her main area of expertise lies in twentieth-century literature and culture\, mainly Czech and Irish\, but also British and (Soviet) Russian. She is particularly interested in the subject of literary and other censorship\, as well as the relationship between literature and society. Jana’s research work has been largely comparative\, focused primarily on the post-independence Czech (Czechoslovak) and Irish contexts. Recently she has been working on expanding her scope by exploring the related cultural territories of the Soviet Union and Great Britain. In addition\, she is interested in the politics of translation. As a trained philologist\, she also teaches Czech Language courses at the Department. \nJack Teeling\nJack founded the Teeling Whiskey Company in 2012 and has quickly transformed it into the leading progressive Irish whiskey company with a portfolio of premium award winning Irish whiskeys exporting  to over 60 International Markets and opened the first new distillery in Dublin for over 125 years in 2015. He obtained a MSc in International Business from the Dublin Trinity College\, a MBS in Finance from the University College of Dublin and a BCOM in Commerce from the University College of Dublin. \nDonal Lunny KC\nDonal has a broad civil practice encompassing Administrative Law/ Judicial Review\, Land Law\, Personal Injury and Public Inquiries. His practice also extends to the Lands Tribunal where he regularly acts in rating and valuation appeals\, vesting compensation claims (including blight notice cases)\, compensation claims under Schedule 9 of the Land Registration Act (NI) 1970\, and rent review arbitrations. Donal is currently a member of the Government Legal Service’s Senior Counsel Panel\, having previously been a member of its Junior Counsel ‘A’ Panel for several years. Between 2017 and 2020 he was one of two Junior Counsel to the Public Inquiry into the Northern Ireland RHI Scheme. Donal has been an elected member of the Bar Council since 2003. Find more information here. \n  \nDaniel James Perez\nDaniel James Perez is a US Attorney (ret’d) and President of CLE Abroad\, an organization dedicated to promoting international exchange for US attorneys. In addition to his role at CLE Abroad\, Daniel directs legal programming and educational activities for other tour operators and organizations serving professional and accredited learning abroad and postgraduate education. Daniel is a regular speaker and moderator for live lectures and panels on international law and policy. \n  \n2025 FBA Ireland Brochure May\n  \n 
URL:https://www.fedbar.org/event/law-culture-in-ireland/
LOCATION:Ireland
CATEGORIES:Senior Lawyers Division
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SUMMARY:Qui Tam Section: [VIRTUAL] The FCA’s Public Disclosure Bar: More Harm than Good?
DESCRIPTION:**Program hosted in (ET) Time Zone** \nThe public disclosure bar is one of the False Claims Act’s most hotly litigated provisions. Panelists from the relators’ and defense bars will discuss how the public disclosure bar operates in practice and whether it plays a net-beneficial role in the statutory scheme. \nRegister Today!\n  \nPresented by the FBA Qui Tam Section \n  \n\nPresenters\nKatherine J. Seikaly\, Reed Smith (Moderator)\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDouglas W. Baruch\, Morgan Lewis\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTejinder Singh\, Sparacino PLLC\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nRegistration\nRegister here! \n\nFBA Members: $0\nNon-Members: $0\n\n\nCLE\nPlease note that CLE credit is not offered for this webinar. \n  \n\nEmail Communication Policy \nBy registering for this event\, you agree to receive email communications from the Federal Bar Association and affiliated sponsors of the program concerning event details\, Continuing Legal Education certification\, programming changes\, upcoming events\, surveys\, and post-event communications. \nRecording Disclaimer \nBy registering for an FBA webinar\, you agree to the recording of audio and visual content presented during the live event and consent to subsequent use of the recording by the FBA. You agree that the recording is the sole property of the FBA and that the recording may be used by the FBA in any manner in its sole and absolute discretion. This recording may include questions and poll responses provided by you during the live event. If you do not consent to the recording and the FBA’s use of the same\, do not register for the event. \nIf you have any questions regarding this program\, please contact sections@fedbar.org.
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