In early 2025, the Law Society established the Centre for Justice and Law Reform to advance justice-system improvement and public-interest law reform. The centre launched its inaugural Summer School in July, bringing together leading national and international experts to explore challenges facing democratic institutions and the rule of law. It also published the Justice Indicators report, benchmarking Ireland’s justice system across public trust, policing, courts, and prisons.

The Small Practice Traineeship Grant Scheme continued to widen access to the profession while helping smaller and rural firms meet trainee employment costs. Since its launch, 32 grants have been awarded, including six in 2025. The scheme provides €18,000 to participating firms and €7,000 in PPC fee support for trainees, enabling aspiring solicitors to train within their local communities while strengthening regional legal services nationwide.

The 2026 practising-certificate renewal opened early in December 2025. The introduction of a new payment facility ensured a smoother process for practitioners, with a 98% uptake of the new payment method. The project’s impact and successful delivery was recognised twice at the Irish Account[1]ancy Awards, where it received the ‘Finance Project of the Year’ award in 2025 and the ‘Best Use of Technology in Accounting and Finance’ award in 2026.

The 2025 Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on artificial intelligence attracted 7,100 participants from 92 countries, making it the largest course delivered by the Law Society since the initiative began in 2014. To date, more than 41,200 participants from 119 countries have taken part in Law Society MOOCs.

More than 3,300 in-house solicitors received In the House, a new digital magazine specially curated for in-house practitioners that launched in autumn 2025. Separately, more than 500 solicitors registered for the new In-house General Counsel Summit Series.

There are currently 212 individuals participating in the Access Scholarship Scheme. Of these, 126 individuals are receiving financial support for FE1 examinations, while 86 individuals are receiving support at PPC level – 26 scholarship participants joined PPC courses during 2025.

Toolkits to support legal professionals to generate psychological safety as a foundation for high-performance launched in spring 2025. A thousand hard copies of the toolkits were shared with solicitors across the country at regional ‘cluster’ events, with many more accessed online.

Significant progress was made in 2025 on the development of the eConveyancing Platform. Following Council approval in January 2025, Phases 1 and 2 delivered a secure prototype supported by usability testing, stakeholder engagement, and demonstrations to over 300 practitioners.

Small Practice Month was launched in October, featuring a programme of events, activities and special publications dedicated to the challenges and needs of those working in smaller practices. More than 4,000 solicitors took part in live events, while 6,300 participated in all programme events.

The PII premium pool for the 2025/2026 indemnity period reduced by a further 6% – a cumulative reduction of 35% over the last four years, placing the current premium pool at its lowest level since the 2018/2019. The profession continues to benefit from affordable premium levels, strong insurer involvement, and healthy market competition, with public protection remaining at a high standard.