Helen Coughlan qualified as a Solicitor in 2004. She studied law in University College Cork and obtained a first class honours BCL degree in 1999. She trained with Matheson Ormsby Prentice, Solicitors, in Dublin.
Her specialties include family law and medical negligence. Helen is an experienced family lawyer and is a qualified family mediator. She is a trained collaborative law practitioner and is a founder member of the Kildare West Wicklow Collaborative Solicitors Group. She regularly appears in the Circuit and High Court and also in the Court of Appeal.
Helen has been Chair of the Family and Child Law Committee of the Law Society. She has been the President of the Kildare Solicitors Bar Association and is an elected member of the Council of the Law Society. She is a Chairperson of Mental Health Tribunals for the Mental Health Commission.