RDJ Glynn Solicitors announced last week it will be funding a new scholarship in NUI Galway.
The scholarship, which is worth €7,500, will be awarded to one postgraduate student on the new LLM in law, technology and governance at the university.
It will be awarded on academic merit, in a competition open to all candidates offered a place on the first intake of the new LLM in law, technology and governance in NUI Galway in August, 2008.
Padraic Brennan, who heads the Galway office of RDJ Glynn, said: “RDJ Glynn has strong links with the university. Most of our solicitors and trainees and several members of our support staff received their third level education there, and we are delighted to encourage postgraduate study of commercial law in the important area of technology and governance by sponsoring this scholarship.”
The Dean of the law faculty in NUIG, Donncha O’Connell, said, “It is vital that university law schools establish meaningful connections with the world of legal practice.
“Our graduates from a variety of programmes are now placed in the top echelons of practice in Ireland and abroad.
“This award is an ideal way of marking ties between ‘town and gown’ and the Faculty of Law is extremely grateful to RDJ Glynn for its initiative in sponsoring this scholarship.”
Programme co-ordinator for the LLM in law, technology and governance, Rónán Kennedy, added: “We are very happy to have the support of one of Ireland’s leading law firms for our newest and most innovative programme and look forward to continuing to work with RDJ Glynn over the coming years.”
Further information on the NUI Galway law school’s post-graduate programmes, including application information, is available at http://www.nuigalway.ie/law/postgrad/
