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Elaine Kelly - Partner
Elaine Kelly is a Partner in the Employment Department. She has extensive experience in employment, industrial relations and equality law. Elaine advises both public sector and private clients on a broad range of employment and equality issues.
Elaine provides both external and internal training to clients, has lectured on the Law Society professional education and diploma programmes and has spoken at conferences for bodies such as Legal Island, the Institute for Certified Public Accountants and the LGMSB.
Elaine is a co-author of the Law Society employment law manual and is also a member of the firm’s Knowledge Management Committee.
Key experience
- Advising the Heath Service Executive in diverse employment matters involving Consultants and employees at all levels and in litigation in all fora including Supreme Court and High Court.
- Advising corporate clients in acquisitions and outsourcing, which give rise to a transfer of undertaking, including acting for a corporate client in a recent acquisition involving the transfer of over 300 employees.
- Advising corporate clients on restructuring involving collective redundancies and voluntary severance programmes, having recently acted for a large unionised semi-state organisation in an extensive restructuring programme involving over 180 employees.
- Advising clients in the construction and electrical industry in relation to trade disputes and Registered Employment Agreements and representing clients at Labour Court and High Court hearings in that context.
Qualifications
- TCD LLB (Hons)
- UCD, Michael Smurfit Business School, Diploma in Business Studies
Memberships
- Law Society of Ireland
- Dublin Solicitors Bar Association