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Breda practices as a solicitor in our commercial and employment law departments, where she has thirteen years experience in both areas.
Breda has trained and qualified as a mediator with the U.K. based, internationally renowned Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution. Breda practices as a mediator of commercial, employment and community based disputes.
Breda has a particular expertise in employment law, advising both employers and employees on all aspects of the employment relationship, including relationship issues - contentious and non contentious, equality matters and industrial relations issues. Breda has a wide range of experience in dealing with commercial and employment disputes, focusing on having clients resolve their disputes at the earliest stage possible, and as cost efficiently as possible. Her commercial litigation and employment law experience extends across the range of civil courts and statutory tribunals in Ireland. She has extensive experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts at the different levels of the business supply chain. She also advises on a vast myriad of legal queries for businesses.
Breda regularly gives workshops and seminars to trade associations and client organisations on employment and commercial law issues.
Breda joined Hayes Solicitors as a solicitor’s apprentice and qualified as a solicitor in 1996. She worked in McCann Fitzgerald Solicitors from 1996 until she returned to Hayes as a partner in 2008.