Annual Review of Employment Law 2025
Thursday, 27 November 2025
09:00 - 16:30 ( 7 hours 30 mins )
Hybrid
The Annual Review of Employment Law is the ultimate gathering for HR practitioners seeking to elevate their knowledge, skills, and connections in the ever-changing world of employment law and HR best practices in Ireland.

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In Person Early bird
€645.00
Virtual Early bird
€545.00
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Event details
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Full Day Conference Duration
27th November -
Hybrid Aviva Stadium, Dublin or Online
€645.00 Early bird ends 16th October 2025 at 5:00pm. Standard rate: €695.00 Charity and Small Business rate also available
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Overview

The Irish HR Event of the Year Returns...

The Annual Review of Employment Law returns in its hybrid format once again on 27th November 2025!

Join us for a dynamic day of learning, networking, and inspiration at the Annual Review of Employment Law, hosted at the prestigious Aviva Stadium, or live online! 
 
Whether you choose to attend in person or tune in online, this event promises valuable insights and opportunities to listen to industry leaders, including Jennifer Cashman of RDJ LLP, Duncan Inverarity of A&L Goodbody LLP and more.

Testimonials

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Here's what previous attendees of the Annual Review of Employment Law have to say:

"Always an excellent event, with excellent speakers, well informed and great communication skills. Great choice of topics covered on the day!"
Margaret Davern HR Partner, The National Gallery of Ireland
"The best event I've ever been to! Very informative sessions"
Agata Bizuk HR Advisor, The Salvation Army
"Professional and expert presentations which have allowed me to set up HR for 2025 in my organisation"
Jacqueline Wall HR & OD Manager, Food Safety Authority of Ireland
"Excellent speakers, relevant content, online offering was seamless. The variety and pace of each presentation [was great]. Not a minute was wasted."
Fiona Monahan Head of HR, Bloomfield Hospital
"Excellent topic choice and excellent presenters, particularly Jennifer Cashman and Duncan Invararity. Really liked the assumption that we are already knowlegable professionals so the content was pitched at that level. Really good digital pack. Very professionally run event. Well done."
Jacki Conway Chief Operating Officer, Everlake
"Fantastic, very informative & practical"
Sarah Kenny Head of HR Operations, Forvis Mazars
"The hybrid event worked super well and the quality and content of the speakers was extremely relevant and interesting."
Conor Coppinger HR Executive, The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI)
Presenters
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Jennifer Cashman Partner and Head of Employment Group, RDJ LLP
Jennifer Cashman Partner and Head of Employment Group, RDJ LLP
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Jennifer Cashman has more than 20 years’ specialist experience advising a wide range of employers across a number of sectors. Recognised as a Leading Individual in Irish Employment Law in the 2023 edition of The Legal 500 Europe and is also recommended as a Leading Lawyer (Band 1) in Chambers Europe. Recognised thought-leader on various employment law and HR issues, in particular retirement ages and age discrimination. Clients praise Jennifer for her “practical, business-focused advice” and say “she gives "straight answers to straight questions… clearly very experienced and her delivery is fantastic - always clear and to the point."

Maura Connolly Partner, Addleshaw Goddard
Maura Connolly Partner, Addleshaw Goddard
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Maura is head of the Dispute Resolution Department in Addleshaw Goddard's Dublin office, she also leads the Employment & Employee Benefits Law Group.  Maura advises employers and employees on all aspects of employment law including contentious and non-contentious matters. Maura is experienced in civil litigation and has represented clients in employment law tribunals, before industrial relations bodies and in the Courts. Recent experience has included advising an employer on a high profile executive termination, which included wide ranging disputes relating to the executive’s directorship, shareholder and financial interests in the group; advising a registered charity on an investigation arising from a protected disclosure; providing strategic advice to an advertising company on the loss of a major contract and the transfer of its workforce under transfer of undertakings regulations.

She has been involved in many commercial transactions and has considerable experience of employment law issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions.  Maura has advised on regulatory breaches, corporate fraud and white-collar crime and completed an Advanced Diploma in 2015 in the Honorable Society of King’s Inns in this area.

Having studied law in Trinity College Dublin, Maura qualified as a solicitor in 1993 with McCann FitzGerald and worked in the firm’s London and Dublin offices. She joined Eugene F. Collins in 2003 and became a partner and head of the Employment & Employee Benefits Group in 2006.

Michelle Halloran HR Consultant, Michelle Halloran HRM Services
Michelle Halloran HR Consultant, Michelle Halloran HRM Services
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Michelle Halloran is an experienced Human Resource Management professional and an accredited workplace mediator providing training and consultancy services to organisations nationwide, in the Public and Private sector. She has spent a long career originally in executive and general management roles, then specialising in Human Resources management in Ireland, the UK and Europe, across various sectors including investment banking, information technology, manufacturing and services plus some time in the public sector, before starting her own HR consultancy business 17 years ago. Her key areas of expertise are in workplace investigations, disciplinary and performance management and employee relations, and the practical application of employment law in a HR context.

Duncan Inverarity Partner & Head of Employment Law, A&L Goodbody LLP
Duncan Inverarity Partner & Head of Employment Law, A&L Goodbody LLP
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Duncan Inverarity a partner and Head of A&L Goodbody's Employment Law group and has practiced exclusively in the area of employment law and industrial relations in multiple jurisdictions. Duncan advises public and private sector employers on both contentious and non-contentious matters. He advises Board rooms across Ireland and abroad on strategic and complex employment and industrial relations matters. Duncan also specialises in crisis management for clients and has advised on some of the most high profile corporate issues in Ireland. Duncan regularly appears for clients in the Workplace Relations Commission, the Circuit Court, the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Duncan also acts for partnerships in mediated settlements and in proceedings in the High Court.

Pricing

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In Person
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€645.00 Standard Rate: €695.00 Early bird ends 16th October 2025 at 5:00pm
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€545.00 Standard Rate: €595.00 Early bird ends 16th October 2025 at 5:00pm
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More Charity & Small Business pricing
In Person Standard Rate: €595.00 Early Bird: €545.00 (Ends 16th October 2025 at 5:00pm)
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Online Standard Rate: €495.00 Early Bird: €445.00 (Ends 16th October 2025 at 5:00pm)