Lawyers

Nicola MacCarthy

Nicola MacCarthy

Position

Solicitor

Career

Nicola qualified as a solicitor and barrister in New Zealand in 2006 and was added to the Roll of Solicitors in Ireland in 2008, following which she joined a busy small general practice in Dublin.  Here she became a Senior Civil Litigation Solicitor practising in Personal Injury Law, Defamation, Employment and contentious Succession Law.    In 2013 Nicola left to start her own practise and was the Principal there (Somers & Co Solicitors) until late 2015 at which time she moved to UK for family reasons.   Nicola spent 5 years in the UK where she is also admitted as a solicitor and there she practised private client and employment law.    She also had her own Notarial Law firm in England.

In 2019 Nicola returned to Ireland where she practises as a Notary Public and Employment Law. In August 2021, Nicola joined AOC Solicitors.

Nicola holds an LLB with Honours from University of London, a Diploma in Notarial Law (in both Ireland and the UK), and also holds a Diploma in Personal Insolvency and in Commercial Litigation from the Law Society of Ireland.