Commercial law firm Mason Hayes & Curran is adding 75 new positions in the practice through 2015, according to the firm.

Hiring for these positions, which include roles spanning from lawyers to professional support staff, began earlier this year and will continue until the year's end. Mason Hayes & Curran currently employs 410 personnel, including 77 partners.

Managing Partner Declan Black said: “We are obviously pleased to be busy and growing. Clients need well-resourced law firms to deliver quality advice and service at the speed that business operates. Our recruitment initiatives are designed to meet, and indeed anticipate, the clients' needs."

Black went on to say Ireland's professional services sector provides a major direct contribution to the economy and influence to foreign investment. "The growth of Mason Hayes & Curran is reflective of both the upturn in the economy and our ethic of providing consistently excellent and clear advice and doing so quickly," he said.

In 2014, MHC's turnover increased 25% to €60 million.

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Meanwhile, the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Report has ranked William Fry Ireland's most innovative law firm and Europe's sixth most innovative non-UK law firm.

The report decides its rankings based on forensic research. Its entries require robust client or independent reference before benchmarking against each other. William Fry's recognition of innovation was rooted in the firm's help to create the first Europe-wide clearing house for exchanged traded funds (finance), its convincing Irish courts to consider shari'a law (dispute resolution) and its leading an integrated advocacy approach in a "state aid" case that lasted 10 years (competition).