Boyce is Head of William Fry’s Employment & Benefits Department.
Boyce espouses the importance of strategic advice at the early stage to avoid claims or litigation and increasingly clients have recognised that his approach can save the cost of expensive litigation.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to avoid all claims or litigation and over his career he has been on the winning side of many of the leading employment law decisions in Ireland from the seminal Fennelly –v- Assicurazioni Generali Spa, to Berber –v- Dunnes Stores, Nagle and Williamson –v- Payzone and Nolan –v- Emo Oil.
He advocates on behalf of clients before Rights Commissioners, Tribunals and the Labour Court, representing both corporate clients and senior executives.
Boyce is a member of the European Employment Lawyers Association, and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Boyce was listed in Best Lawyers 2018 under 'The Best Lawyers in Ireland' for work in Labour and Employment Law.
Boyce is ranked as a leading lawyer in major international legal directories, in Chambers Europe 2017 clients confirm that the market-leading Boyce Shubotham has "excellent technical knowledge," and is "responsive and commercially aware."
According to interviewees in Chambers Europe 2016, Boyce "has great, savvy experience of how things will pan out. I liked his measured, personable approach."
In Chambers Europe 2015, sources say Boyce "is an extremely knowledgeable employment litigator. Clients seek to involve him in the most sensitive and contentious HR matters".
Legal 500 EMEA, 2015 say that his team is ‘responsive and reliable’ headed by the ‘astute and commercial’ Boyce Shubotham.
Chambers Europe 2014, say he is "very strategic and astute, and demonstrates that the law is one thing, but the tactics behind it are the key."
