1882 WhitneyMoore Solicitors is founded

1884 The GAA is founded in Hayes Hotel, Thurles

1885 World’s first skyscraper built in Chicago

1888 J.B. Dunlop invents pneumatic tyre

1889 The Eiffel Tower is completed

1893 New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to grant women the vote

1896 First Modern Olympic Games held in Athens

1902 Intoxicating Liquor Act reduces the number of pub licences

1904 Abbey Theatre opens represented by WhitneyMoore

1912 The Titanic sinks on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic

1916 The Easter Rising takes place in Dublin

1919 Dáil Éireann establishes Civil and Criminal courts

1926 George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel Prize for Literature

1929 Stock markets around the world collapse

1936 Aer Lingus flies between Ireland and Britain for the first time

1937 The Constitution of Ireland comes into force

1948 Ireland beat Wales 6-3 to win the Grand Slam

1953 Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal reach top of Mt. Everest

1954 Roger Bannister breaks the 4 minute mile

1955 Ireland becomes a member of the United Nations

1957 The Space Age begins with the launch of Russia’s Sputnik 1

1961 First television broadcast by RTÉ takes place

1963 JFK is assassinated in Dallas, Texas

1969 Neil Armstrong walks on the moon

1973 Ireland becomes a member of the EEC

1974 Richard Nixon becomes the first sitting US president to resign

1977 Death of Elvis Presley

1979 Ireland is appointed a member of the European Monetary System

1980 John Lennon assassinated in New York city

1981 Introduction of the Personal Computer by IBM

1985 Ryanair founded

1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Accident

1987 Stephen Roche wins the Tour de France

1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall

1990 Nelson Mandela released after 27 years of imprisonment

1995 Seamus Heaney wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1997 Hong Kong returned to Chinese Rule

1998 Good Friday Agreement endorsed

1999 JFK Junior dies in a plane crash

2000 DOT COM crash

2001 Twin Towers in New York destroyed by terrorists

2002 Euro currency introduced in 12 countries

2003 Ireland hosts the Special Olympics

2004 Tsunami causes devastation in South-East Asia

2005 YouTube launched

2006 St. Andrews Agreement signed restoring the Northern Ireland Assembly

2007 Irish Cricket Team defeat Pakistan at the Cricket World Cup

2008 Barack Obama elected first African-American President of the USA

2009 Ireland beat Wales 17-15 to win the Grand Slam

Gerry Carroll

Gerry is a litigation specialist and has handled some of the largest and most complex cases to come before the Irish courts. He also has extensive experience of international litigation practice involving European and US courts. Although acting in commercial disputes for clients across a broad range of activity, Gerry has considerable experience of insurance, professional disciplinary inquiries and aviation matters. He advises the firm’s automotive clients and is experienced in all aspects of the EU Block Exemption Regulations which affect that sector.

In the area of intellectual property he has acted in an advisory capacity and in the conduct of litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants. Gerry has been involved in infringement and revocation patent actions concerning pharmaceutical and veterinary drugs, proceedings alleging infringement of a patent for additives to mud used for drilling for oil and gas and coronary heart stents.

Gerry qualified as a solicitor in 1984 having obtained a Bachelor of Civil Law degree at University College Dublin. He became partner in 1989 and was head of the firm’s litigation department from 1995 to 2002. Gerry was Managing Partner of the firm from 2003 to 2009.

Gerry is a member of the IBA, DRI Europe, the Lawyers’ Pilots’ Bar Association and AOPA. He is also a qualified pilot with a particular interest in aviation law.

Practice Areas

Recommendations

Recommended as a leading lawyer in Intellectual Property
The Legal 500 (2009)

WhitneyMoore displays ‘excellent industry knowledge’, ‘uses its experience very effectively’ and ‘impresses with the speed of its response times’. Aoife Murphy and Gerry Carroll are the names to note in this ‘sensible’ team and clients are drawn from the pharma, retail and energy sectors.

Recommended as a leading lawyer in Dispute Resolution
Chambers Europe – Europe's Leading Lawyers for Business (2009)

Managing partner Gerry Carroll is recognised as being central to the team’s flourishing IP and IT practice. An “intelligent and very efficient practitioner,” he also takes on wider commercial work, including insurance and aviation law matters.

Recommended as a leading lawyer in Dispute Resolution and contentious Intellectual Property
Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2008)

Described as being “a pleasure to deal with - efficient, robust and very professional.” Despite his management responsibilities, Carroll’s availability was praised by clients: “He gets back to you very quickly,” said one. He handles a range of contentious work, and has niche expertise in aviation law.

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