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Employee Benefits Law Firm of the Year – Ireland
Anne O’Connell Solicitors, also known as AOC Solicitors, is a leading specialist Employment
Law firm. Established in 2017 by Founder and Principal Anne O’Connell, the Firm has
achieved great success in the last number of years and continues to grow and expand.
Drawing on a combined 25 years of employment law experience, AOC Solicitors provides a
strategic approach to employment law issues, focusing on advising clients on the best
solution to achieve their objectives while meeting their commercial needs and business
requirements. AOC Solicitors advises large multi-national companies, semi-state
companies, small and start-up businesses. It also advises individual employees facing
employment law disputes, particularly executives and directors.
Qualified as a solicitor and a New York Attorney in 2001, Anne O’Connell, Founder and
Principal, practiced employment law with the Chief State Solicitors Office and two top tier
Irish law firms. With over 19 years employment law experience Anne formed her own
specialist employment law firm in 2017 and thus AOC Solicitors was born.
Within its first year AOC was ranked by Legal 500 as Leading Firm in Employment Law in
Ireland and has received numerous awards.
The Firm provides dedicated and expert legal advice that is tailored to the unique
requirements of its clients. The scope of services of the Firm include, advising private and
public sector companies, international clients and individuals on all contentious and
noncontentious employment law issues. AOC Solicitors represents its clients before
employment law statutory bodies, regulatory boards, the Civil Courts and at Mediation.
The Firm offers a full suite of employment law services including advices and representation
in respect of all contentious employment matters and non-contentious employment related
issues including advices in respect of all day to day employment law queries such as
disciplinary procedures, grievance procedures, dignity at work complaints, protected
disclosures, working time queries, the drafting and reviewing of contracts of employment
and staff policies and procedures, the negotiation of and drafting and reviewing of severance
agreements and the handling of industrial relations issues.
AOC Solicitors also routinely advises its employer clients in respect of redundancy and
restructuring, transfer of undertakings and trade union recognition. It also carries out
employment law compliance audits and offers bespoke training and seminars for its
employer and consultant clients.
ANNE O’Connell – Founder and Principal
As stated above, Anne qualified as a solicitor and a New York Attorney in 2001 and
practiced employment law with the Chief State Solicitors Office, two top tier Irish law firms
and also established the Employment Law Department in a smaller firm. With over 19 years
of extensive employment law experience, Anne has acquired an in-depth experience from
every angle in employment law through the various firms in which she has practiced and
this has given her a high-calibre strategic and practical approach to employment law