The Law Society has elected Gerard Doherty as its new president, replacing John Shaw. He took office yesterday and will serve a one-year term as president of the 12,000-member solicitors’ profession until November 2010.
Mr Doherty is a partner in the law firm O’Reilly Doherty Co in Finglas, Dublin.
From Westport, Co Mayo, Mr Doherty was educated in the CBS primary school in Westport and Castleknock College, Dublin. He graduated with a BCL law degree from UCD and qualified in 1973. He moved into partnership at O’Reilly Doherty in 1984.
He became a member of the Council of the Law Society of Ireland in 1989.
He has chaired many of the society’s committees, including the regulation of practice committee, the complaints and client relations committee and the finance committee.