Consultants

Monica Nally Hennessy - Consultant

Monica is a consultant with the Healthcare team at Hayes Solicitors. With a wide range of experience in litigation across multiple jurisdictions, she specialises in the defence of clinical negligence claims.

Monica is a consultant with the Healthcare team at Hayes Solicitors. With a wide range of experience in litigation across multiple jurisdictions, she specialises in the defence of clinical negligence claims.

Experience

  • Monica’s previous experience includes 12 years as a Senior Solicitor specialising in High Court plaintiff personal injury claims involving complex investigations into liability, causation, and quantum.
  • Financial services- worked for an overseas regulatory body in financial services regulation with responsibility for transposition of seminal EU Directives into law.
  • Defence litigation- trained with a well-known defence litigation firm in Dublin before moving to the UK where she worked in commercial property for a City of London firm.
  • She successfully passed the NY Bar in 1996 and practiced in a private client firm of NY attorneys thereafter, before returning to Dublin.
  • Monica has also worked in general practice in Dublin for many years.

Qualifications/Education

  • Mod. Legal Science Trinity College Dublin 1984
  • Admitted as a Solicitor in Ireland in 1988
  • Diploma in EU Law from University College Dublin 1993
  • Admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales, 1991
  • Admitted to the NY Bar 1996
  • Certificate in Funds Law and Compliance Law Society of Ireland 2011

Memberships

  • Law Society of Ireland
  • Institute of Directors