{"id":36208,"date":"2022-06-09T10:44:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T10:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/events\/?post_type=event_report&#038;p=36208"},"modified":"2022-06-09T10:44:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T10:44:56","slug":"gc-powerlist-ireland-2022","status":"publish","type":"event_report","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/report\/gc-powerlist-ireland-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"GC Powerlist: Ireland 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since a Covid-enforced hiatus, <span data-contrast=\"none\">The Legal 500<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0travelled to Dublin to launch the latest edition of one of our most popular editions in the GC Powerlist\u00a0series: <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">The GC Powerlist: Ireland 2022<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">. And it was great to be back.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Head of research for the GC Powerlist\u00a0series Joe Boswell and GC Powerlist\u00a0maestro David Freeman were in attendance alongside the very best of the Irish in-house legal scene to celebrate the achievements of in-house counsel from both established and up-and-coming businesses across Ireland. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The event took place\u00a0at Matheson\u2019s plush headquarters on the banks of the river\u00a0Liffey, with managing partner Michael Jackson providing the opening remarks to the GCs in attendance before Alex Potlog, legal director for the UK and Ireland at AbbVie spoke about some of the challenges he and his contemporary in-house counsel have faced over an extremely challenging last few years. A highly enervating session of\u00a0drinks, food and networking with the best and the brightest of Ireland\u2019s legal community followed into the night. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">A huge thank you to long-term Legal 500 partners Matheson for helping to make this Ireland GC Powerlist\u00a0our best yet, to Michael Jackson\u00a0for his opening remarks at the event, to Alex Potlog\u00a0for his engaging and relatable speech, and to everyone who made it into the list for this edition. Here&#8217;s to the next one!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36256,"template":"","class_list":["post-36208","event_report","type-event_report","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_report\/36208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_report"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event_report"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_report\/36208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}