Firm:	Byrne Wallace Shields LLP
Position:	Partner and Head of Cyber Law and Head of Litigation and Regulatory. Visiting Professor and the Palmer Chair (in Law and Policy) at Dalhousie University (Schulich Law Faculty), Canada
Address:	88 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2
Phone:	+353 1 691 5494
Fax:	+353 1 691 5010
Email:	jlegorburu@byrnewallaceshields.com
Personal URL:	https://byrnewallaceshields.com/about-us/our-team/jon-legorburu.html

Special Areas:

Jon is partner and Head of Byrne Wallace Shields LLP's Litigation and Regulatory practice.

His practice includes advice to government and the health system at the strategic level and to many of the State’s regulatory bodies on major projects of various sorts. As such his specialist areas are strategic policy advice with a legal dimension, information technology, procurement, cyber-crime, white collar crime, state aid, financial services, corporate and intellectual property advices, and he is rated in the legal directories for his work in these areas. He also worked closely with policy makers during Covid.

Jon’s work focuses on the early economic analysis of cases, rational behaviour in dispute situations, and strategies designed to achieve business gains where conflicts arise. He is well versed in all types of Court actions including Mareva Injunctions, Anton Piller Orders and other pre-emptive remedies. Jon has a very high success rate in getting disputes resolved quickly and effectively.

His chosen areas of specialisation are company and corporate disputes, regulatory disputes, project based litigation in the construction and logistics sectors, and intellectual property/information technology matters. Jon’s work has included representing clients in business critical injunctions to protect or freeze assets. He has worked in leading law firms in England and Australasia, including Slaughter and May in the United Kingdom and Chapman Tripp in New Zealand.

Career:

Prior to joining Byrne Wallace Shields LLP in 2010, Jon worked in leading law firms in England and Australasia, including Slaughter and May in the United Kingdom and Chapman Tripp in New Zealand.

Qualifications:

Visiting Professor and the Palmer Chair (in Law and Policy) at Dalhousie University (Schulich Law Faculty), Canada
Bachelor of Arts (BA)(Honours)(Political Science), University of King's College, Halifax, Canada, 1990
Master of Science (Msc)(Econ)(British Politics), London School of Economics and Political Science
Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of Edinburgh, 1994
Common Professional Exam (CPE), College of Law, London, 1995
Legal Practice Course (LPC), College of Law, London, 1996
Admitted as a Solicitor, Law Society of England & Wales, 1998
Admitted as a Barrister, New Zealand Law Society, 1999
Admitted as a Solicitor in Ireland 2010

Memberships:

Dublin Solicitors Bar Association
Law Society of Ireland
Law Society of England & Wales
Law Society of New Zealand
Member of the Anti-Counterfeiting Group
Member of the Society of Computers and the Law