Shirley Blair > A&L Goodbody Northern Ireland LLP > Belfast, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
A&L Goodbody Northern Ireland LLP Offices
42-46 FOUNTAIN STREET
BELFAST
BT1 5EF
United Kingdom
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Shirley Blair
Work Department
https://www.algoodbody.com/belfast/our-services/employment-incentives-belfast
Position
Of Counsel
Career
Shirley Blair is an Of Counsel in A&L Goodbody’s Employment and Incentives group in Belfast and has over twenty years’ experience advising on Employment and Education law. She advises on the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters for clients in all sectors. Shirley specialises in complex discrimination proceedings in NI Court of Appeal and is a qualified Solicitor Advocate. She has gained substantial expertise in High Court litigation, particularly disputes pertaining to restrictive covenants, injunctions and Judicial Reviews concerning schools. Shirley is the NI Chamber of Commerce representative on the Employee Relations Roundtable – a federation of the Chamber, CBI, IoD and the LRA that lobbies the NI Government. She is the NI contributing author to the book “Professional Secrecy of Lawyers in Europe”.
Memberships
ELA (former NI elected Representative)
ELG NI
NI Chamber of Commerce representative on the LRA Employment Relations Roundtable Confederation
NI Contributing Author of Professional Secrecy in Europe
Regular speaker at Legal Island
Education
- Solicitor, Law Society Northern Ireland
- Solicitor, Law Society England & Wales
- Higher Rights of Audience (GB)
- CPE & LPC Law (Distinction)
- Postgraduate Diploma Administration and Law
- BSc Psychology
Lawyer Rankings
Northern Ireland > Employment
(Next Generation Partners)A&L Goodbody Northern Ireland LLP‘s large team covers the full scope of employment law, including tribunal litigation, TUPE, immigration issues and industrial relations. The group is highly experienced in cross-jurisdictional work, and is regularly active for clients across the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Team lead Gareth Walls has significant expertise advising on employment law in the financial services industry, and is a thought leader on matters such as hybrid working, modern slavery, and ESG. Aisling Byrne, who joined from Cleaver Fulton Rankin in 2021, handles contentious and non-contentious employment matters, and is a key name for data protection. Of counsel Shirley Blair specialises in complex discrimination matters. Rob Tubman and Johanna Cunningham are prominent names at the associate level.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Real estate > Commercial property
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy, project finance and PFI
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms