SPAIN TOOMEY SOLICITORS - Key Persons
Ailbhe completed her LL.B in law and qualified as a solicitor in 2005. She worked in general practice for a number of years before joining a family run property business. Ailbhe completed a Diploma in Family Law with the Law Society and began working with Spain Toomey Solicitors in 2022.
Helen O'Riain studied law at UCD and qualified as a solicitor in 1998. She has worked for many years in busy practices, firstly in general practice and thereafter running a litigation department. She has her own private client practice and also works as a Consultant with Spain Toomey Solicitors.
Justin is one of only a handful of lawyers in Ireland who is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers. He studied law at Trinity and qualified as a Solicitor in 1994 with Matheson Ormsby Prentice. Following qualification he completed an MBA before working with AIB Corporate Finance and with Herbert Smith Solicitors in London. Justin left Herbert Smith to return to Ireland in 1999. He has specialised in the area of family law for many years with Hayes Solicitors before leaving there in early 2012 to set up his own specialist practice.
Former Chairman of the Family Law Committee of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association and is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Family Lawyers Association. He is also a former member of the Family and Child Law Committee of the Law Society of Ireland. Justin is also admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales and is trained in Collaborative Law.
Justin has many years of experience acting in a wide range of family law cases in the District, Circuit and High Courts, including many reported landmark cases.
Numerous separation cases involving the issuing of or defending of Judicial Separation proceedings, both in the Circuit Court and in the High Court.