Disputes & Investigations Lawyer
We currently have opportunities for bright, personable and enthusiastic lawyers to join our dynamic team within our market leading firm. We would like to hear from any interested solicitors, whether practicing locally or considering returning to Ireland, with 4+ years relevant PQE gained within a large, medium or boutique corporate law firm or relevant in-house experience.
Our Disputes & Investigations group is the leading disputes and investigations team in the Irish market. We specialise in resolving complex, high value and cross border commercial disputes, through litigation, arbitration, mediation, negotiation and expert determination. We combine this contentious experience with our leading regulatory and white-collar expertise to advise on the most complex, challenging and high profile corporate crises for our Irish and international client base.
Our clients include some of the largest Irish and global companies across a broad range of industry sectors including tech, financial services, life sciences, real estate, asset management, manufacturing, automotive, retail, agri-food and gaming. To an ever increasing extent, our clients are required to deal with regulatory enquiries in parallel with actual or threatened civil litigation and an evolving legal landscape.
We have extensive experience in designing and implementing legal strategies to respond to these types of complex mandates for our clients – including leading engagements with a range of regulators, overseeing internal investigations, providing strategic board advice, managing stakeholder relationships, protecting the company's reputation and assisting with any employment fallout, alongside managing litigation risk. Our team has particular focus on contentious mandates where there is a consumer or customer angle, including product liability litigation and multi-party actions.
Requirements
Successful applicants should have experience or interest in some or all of the following areas:
- Advising on disputes and contentious issues for technology companies
- Advising on business-critical commercial disputes and adopting innovative legal strategies to dealing with claims brought by cohorts of customers.
- Advising on deploying various methods of dispute resolution, including litigation, mediation, expert determination and arbitration, as the most mainstream.
- Advising on defamation claims/cases.
- Advising on white collar crime issues impacting corporates (including fraud, bribery/corruption, money laundering and corporate offences).
- Experience of engaging with regulators (for example the Data Protection Commission, Comisiún na Meán, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission) in response to all forms of regulatory enquiries, including information requests, investigations, and in the context of 'dawn raids'.
Benefits
At A&L we pride ourselves on the high calibre of our employees. We place strong emphasis on career development and enabling our people to excel in their careers. Our work environment is friendly, professional and collaborative. In addition to working with a highly regarded team we offer:
- A competitive remuneration package
- Access to the firm’s marquee training and development programmes, delivered through the ALG School of Business and Law
- Discretionary performance bonus
- Pension and health insurance contribution, wellbeing contribution, life assurance, subsidised gym, restaurant and coffee shop.
- Hybrid working policy
About the firm:
ALG is a leading Irish law firm with five international offices in Dublin, Belfast, London, New York and San Francisco. There are currently 125 partners and over 1,000 employees. The strong international and domestic business community in Ireland forms a valuable part of the ALG client base. ALG is incredibly proud to be recognised as one of the leading Irish law firms in the Chambers and Partners Europe 2026 Guide. ALG is also ranked as a 'top tier' law firm in The Legal 500 EMEA Guide 2026 and the IFLR1000 Guide 2026. The firm is consistently ranked number one in the Irish market and on a European level.
ALG has a reputation for leading the way in continuously developing its service to clients and internally to its business. This is delivered using new processes, ways of working, innovative use of technology and marketing-leading business service teams.
Contact
If you would like to discuss opportunities within our Disputes & Investigations Team in confidence please contact Rory Sullivan, Talent Management Generalist – rsullivan@algoodbody.com .
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