IN THE week that the Government unveiled initiatives to get the country back to work, law firm Mason Hayes + Curran has told me of plans to create 50 new roles to take its headcount at the practice above 300.
“These are real and they will happen,” Mason Hayes’ chairman Declan Moylan said yesterday.
“There will be 20 new trainees. We will also provide new jobs in litigation, a small number in corporate, and some in tax,” he explained.
“We’ve developed a niche in aircraft finance and I’d image two or three will materialise there and we’ll be recruiting two real estate lawyers, to buck the trend.”
Mason Hayes didn’t make any staff redundant during the crash although salaries were frozen.
Moylan said pay rises have been awarded of late at “modest levels”.
“I’m not saying this is all fantastic. There’s pressure on pricing; a lot of competition on marketing, trying to get new clients; and tightening margins. We are living in tough times.”
Speaking from Mayo, Moylan was attending a conference run by the Pennsylvania-based Brehon Law Society, which attracted several high-profile Irish-American lawyers and former Irish politicians here.
The guest speaker was Enda Kenny, who must have raised a glass in Moylan’s direction on hearing of the new jobs.
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