Law firm Comyn Kelleher Tobin (CKT) has announced three strategic appointments following a year of growth. With offices in Cork and Dublin, the firm has appointed two partners and a marketing manager to their 60-strong team of professionals.

Yvonne Joyce joins the firm’s litigation practice, with Sinead Fitzgerald promoted to partner within the firm’s nationally recognised childcare and family law practice.

Ann Marie Callanan, previously of strategic communications consultancy AM O’Sullivan PR, has been appointed to the newly created role of marketing manager.

Managing partner Debbie Moore said: “Following the firm’s expansion in Dublin earlier this year, CKT has one of the largest healthcare legal teams in Ireland.

Momentum

“We wanted to embrace this momentum and continue to strengthen our offering to clients in our specialist areas of healthcare, childcare and family, insurance and litigation.”

Prior to joining CKT, Yvonne worked with a leading healthcare defence firm in Dublin. She has extensive experience in all aspects of defending clinical negligence claims and has been involved in many high-value, catastrophic injuries cases concerning complex issues of liability, causation and quantum.

Public childcare

Sinead is an expert on all aspects of private family law. She advises State agencies, such as Tusla – the Child and Family Agency, and the HSE on public childcare, mental health, wardship and judicial review.

Ann Marie has held in-house and consultancy roles in Ireland, Britain and Australia, developing and implementing integrated PR, marketing and communications campaigns for the corporate, healthcare, life sciences and not-for-profit sectors.