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The Law Society of Ireland said its solicitors roll had received 1,560 applications in the year to date — more than 31 times the average annual rate in the years before the 2016 EU referendum.
Some 3,706 lawyers from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have been registered since the beginning of 2016 as City firms scrabble to insulate themselves from Brexit’s effects.
Those include UK lawyers potentially losing rights of audience in European courts and seeing their ability to advise on European legal matters curtailed.
In August the Law Society of England and Wales warned that the legal sector in the UK could face a £3.5bn hit as a result of a no-deal Brexit. [...]
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