The Gazette 1985

JULY/AUGUST

198

GAZETTE

KNOW YOUR COUNCIL 1984/85

Gerard F. Griffin

Gerard F. Griffin was educated at Belvedere College and University College, Dublin, qualifying in 1978. He has worked as an Assistant Solicitor in Dublin and has his own firm in Dublin since 1982. He was co-opted onto the Society's Litigation Committee in 1981 and has been Chairman of the Committee since 1983. He has been a member of Council since 1982 and is also a member of Council of the Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association. He is a regular contributor to the Law Society's Gazette with articles on Criminal Law.

John F. Buckley

John F. Buckley was educated at C.B.S. Synge Street and University College, Dublin, where he took the Degrees of B.A. and LL.B. He was admitted a Solicitor in 1956. He was Chairman of the Society of Young Solicitors from 1967 to 1969, and President of the Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association in 1978/79. He was elected to the Council of the Society in 1973, and has served as Chairman of the Education Committee and of the Public Relations Committee from 1980 to 1983. He is Chairman of the Division on Legal Education and Continuing Legal Education of the General Practice Section of the International Bar Association and a member of the Council of the Section. He is a partner in the firm of Hickey, Beauchamp, Kirwan, & O'Reilly, Solicitors, Dublin.

Laurence K. Shields

Laurence K. Shields is a partner in the firm of Dockrell, Shields & Farrell, Solicitors, Dublin. He was educated at St. Michael's College and Clongowes Wo od College. He graduated from U CD in 1970 and was admitted a Solicitor in 1972. He is a former auditor of the Solicitors' Apprentices Debating Society and a former lecturer and examiner in Company Law and Partnership for the Society. He was President of the Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association in 1983/84. He was elected to the Council in 1978 and was Chairman of the Company Law Committee. He is presently Chairman of the Education and Education Advisory Committees and the Sub-Committee on Professional Indemnity Insurance. 184