Major law firm RDJ returns to Cork’s South Mall after a decade in Mahon – Medical Marijuana Program Connection

Having left the South Mall at No 12 a decade ago for new, large floor plate offices at City Gate in Mahon, law firm RDJ is to move back from that south suburban base to the most-recently built offices on the South Mall, at No 85, developed in 2019 on a painstakingly assembled site.

Likely to be hugely welcomed back by city traders, retailers and hospitality operators, the RDJ move back to the South Mall will be to highly energy efficient offices. The move sees 170 existing jobs in RDJ’s Cork offices come back to the city’s traditional business, legal and property heartland, in the lower floors of a 45,000 sq ft Gold LEED building developed by JCD Group in 2019.

RDJ employs 300 nationally, with offices also in Galway and Dublin, with over 50 jobs in each of those.

In its native Cork, RDJ is taking over the lease on the lower two floors from tenants cybersecurity firm Forcepoint, which did a multi-million euro fit-out at No 85 just before the covid outbreak in 2020 when it was recruiting additional staff in 2019/2020, but it’s understood that…