A total of 33 Irish lawyers have been named in a 2022 list of women leaders compiled by the legal directory IFLR1000.

The fifth edition of the Women Leaders list features around 1,000 lawyers from across the world, a 33% increase from the number of lawyers recognised last year.

A&L Goodbody and Arthur Cox each have seven lawyers on the list, while McCann FitzGerald has six.

‘Outstanding reputations’

The list includes five lawyers from Matheson, and two each from Maples Group, Walkers, and William Fry. Dentons and Simmons & Simmons each have one representative.

IFLR1000 ranks law firms and lawyers on the basis of financial and corporate transactional work.

It describes those placed on the list as “an exclusive group of lawyers with outstanding reputations within their markets, who either have expertise and experience of working on complex deals, or who have risen to hold leadership roles with their firms or their practices”.