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MHP Sellors is named Law Firm of Year

Eversheds Sutherland LLP was named as ADR Firm of the Year at the Leap Irish Law Awards 2025.

Partner at the firm Graham Kenny is a Law Society Council member and serves on the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee.

Callan Tansey Solicitors LLP – where Law Society Council member Niamh Ní Mhurcú is joint managing partner – won the Civil Litigation Law firm of the Year at the gala evening held in the Clayton Hotel, Burlington Road in Dublin 4 (6 June).

Stardust inquest work

Phoenix Law was honoured with a Special Merit award at the Leap Irish Law Awards 2025 for its work on the Stardust inquest while The Assisted Decision-Making Handbook by Emma Slattery won Law Book of the Year.

Griffith College won the Pro Bono Publico/Community Law Firm of the Year award for its Irish Innocence Project.

Law Firm of the Year 2025

The overall award for Law Firm of the Year went to MHP Sellors LLP, which has a team of 23 people across its offices in Limerick City and Ennis, Co Clare. 

Last November, the firm won the Professional Services Excellence Award at the Clare Business Excellence Awards.

Lawyer of the Year overall winner was Ciaran Mulholland of Mullholland Law, who took the Sole Practitioner of the Year title in last year’s awards.

This year’s Sole Practitioner of the Year was Natasha McDermott of McDermott Solicitors.

The Family Law Firm of the Year award went to Geraghty & Co Solicitors LLP at the event compered by broadcaster Anton Savage, while Criminal Law Firm of the Year was Michael Hennessy Solicitors and Employment Law Firm was Alasdair Purdy LLP.

Property Law firm of the Year was won by Kieran Mulcahy Solicitors and Corporate/Commercial Lawyer of the Year was Sinead Corcoran, chief legal, corporate and external affairs officer at Bon Secours Health System CLG.

The Personal Injury/Medical Negligence Law Firm of the Year award went to Callan Tansey Solicitors LLP while In-House (non-civil or public sector) Legal Team was Allied Irish Banks and Banking & Finance Legal Team was BNP Paribas (Dublin branch).

The Public Sector/Civil Service In-house Legal Team of the Year was the International Protection and Human Trafficking Unit at the Legal Aid Board and Probate Law Firm of the Year was Elaine Byrne Solicitors.

Educators receiving recognition

Law School of the Year went to University of Limerick and Dr Brian Tobin of University of Galway was named Legal Educator of the Year.

OSM Partners LLP scooped the Law Firm Innovation Award and Green & Associates Solicitors was the Diversity and Inclusion Law Firm of the Year.

Nicola Murray of SMD Solicitors was named Legal Executive of the Year and Mark Felton, partner at Amorys Solicitors won Mental Health and Capacity Lawyer of the Year.

Coughlan Kelly Solicitors won the Excellence & Innovation in Client Service award while the Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers was honoured for Excellence in Communications and Johnson Hana took the Service Provider to the Legal Profession title.

Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson was this year’s recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award.

“I came back to Ireland from Harvard Law School and began practise in 1968 as the only woman on the Western Circuit,” she said in her acceptance speech.

“In the following year, I became Reid Professor of Constitutional and Criminal Law at Trinity College Dublin and was also elected to Seanad Éireann.

'Wasn't as hungry' as colleagues

“Because of these roles, I wasn’t as hungry as my other colleagues would be for cases to bring the bread home. I was aware that I had the opportunity to be interested in the kind of cases that would make a difference and try to take some of those,” she said.

Barry Crushell (small picture) won the Sole Practitioner of the Year (Dublin). Carter Anhold (main picture) were winners of Connacht/Ulster Sole Principal of the Year.

The full list of winners is online.