History Our relationship with you
To fulfil our mission, and keeping with our values, we commit ourselves to our clients in a relationship that is different to others.
You give us a responsibility which brings into play personal and sometimes vital problems and challenges your personal or professional future.
Strengthened by this strong trust, we commit ourselves in this mission with the conscience of the duties that it entails to us.
A lawyer owes you more than the simple provision of a service. You should expect more.
In return, there is a mutual respect for the expectations and requirements of these particular commitments.
Our mission
Private individual, director, company, local tradesman, private practice, real estate professional, attorney, chartered accountant, etc. Everyday life exposes you to conflicts, disagreements, accidents, unforeseen circumstances and to constantly changing rules which are often difficult to identify.
This has a name: the JURIDICAL AND JUDICIAL risk.
Our practice structures, adapts and shapes itself constantly, to help you control this risk.
The advice given by others has its limits. A lawyer’s speciality is the law.
Facing these risks, you have LEGAL RIGHTS/NEEDS that you may not always be able to identify in full. Our task is to identify them and deal with them in conjunction with your economic, financial, juridical and judicial partners.
Our values
If the analysis of the risks and their juridical repercussions are the vital ties to our relationship with our clients, we believe that the lawyer should never lose his sense of HUMANITY; legal problems and the legal process involve human issues, affecting people, their lives and their surroundings.
The Client is more than simply the holder of a right, a business person or a party in a contentious litigation.
This is why, beyond our professional standards in terms of juridical analysis and work methods, the sense of HUMANITY is more than a moral obligation. It is the commitment of a lawyer’s entire professional life.
It is a PASSION.
Our availability
The numerous constraints and requirements of legal practice are very demanding.
Despite this, we commit ourselves to remain available and contactable at all times.
We commit ourselves to respond to your telephone calls, faxes, and emails as quickly as possible and we also commit ourselves to return your calls at a time convenient to you.
We are also eager to have your feedback in respect of these commitments, in order to improve the level of service we offer you.
Our information
It is important to us that our clients are kept up to date with the progress of their case.
We commit ourselves to it.
The juridical system has “quirks” and delays of which you may not necessarily be aware.
Conscious of the feelings of exclusion or lack of understanding which result from it, we care about giving you the information you need in real time so that you know how and how long for your rights may be exercised or affected.
This requirement is for us a golden rule in the relationship we have with our clients.
Our continuing professional development
All our lawyers are subject to their legal duty of being trained with the concern that the whole team is always able to respond to the law issues that the cases highlight, in a current, competent and relevant manner.
To do so, we set up an experts’ network which surrounds us and allows us to validate our expertise in our competent areas of activities.
Thus, we dispose of the juridical development monitoring.
Thanks to this, we are constantly informed of the latest law news and reforms.
Also, this will allow us to offer you if required the elaboration of information or training products adapted to the needs of your employees in the juridical aspects of their respective activities.
Our fees
Demosthene wrote: « the question is not to know how much your defence costs but how much it will cost you not to be defended ».
The National Regulations of the lawyers’ profession set out the specific fees criteria:
« For lack of agreement between the lawyer and his client, the fees are set out according to the customs,
depending on the financial situation of the client, the difficulty of the case, the fees exposed by the
lawyer and his notoriety and conscientiousness. The lawyer in charge of a case may ask fees to his client
even though this case is withdrawn before submission, as far as the lawyer’s work has been accomplished »
You have numerous expectations.
They oblige the lawyer to face them with a high degree of requirements which we are able to respond to.
The anxiety which spreads to everybody who is subject to trials facing the adversity in a judicial context or facing the legal risk must be managed by the lawyer. This is one of the pillars of the relationship of trust which is generated between the advisor and his client.
For us, it is unthinkable that this concern may be increased by the financial aspect of our intervention.
Since we are conscious of this difficulty, our fees are set out according to the criteria of the law.
The fact that we do not set the prices of our intervention systematically acts as a vital guarantee of our profession and its independence.
Every case is unique. Thus the lawyer’s involvement has its obligations and uncertainties.
We do not use the convention of fees systematically. This convention appears to us as being adapted in some particular cases only, in your interest as well as in ours.
For lack of convention, the terms and conditions of the billing system, depending on the legal dispositions mentioned above, will be applicable under the control of the President of the Bar and possibly the Court of Appeal in case of problems.
Here are below the main lines of our approach towards the evaluation of the fees.
The initial perception of the case.
The amount of time needed for the interview and the size of the case will be taken into account. The first appointments should allow us to define the problem.
The emergency of the case.
Our lawyers are able to face the time constraints which affect their work significantly.
This emergency will be valued and analysed according to the type of necessary procedure to be used to handle it.
The potential priority given to your case will affect the evaluation of the fees since it will force us to leave aside some other cases and will also implicate a temporary work overload.
The complexity of the case.
The lawyer’s profession is mainly based on his knowledge.
The requirements of the juridical profession sometimes need a thorough and thoughtful work on the case.
Thanks to a detailed and constantly updated documentary support, our lawyers are able to face the juridical difficulty and above all, they are able to respond to it quickly and with efficiency.
Therefore, the complexity of the case is an essential element of the determination of the fees.
The reputation of the practice and the degree of expertise and specialisation of our lawyers in certain areas will enable us to justify the application of more significant fees in some cases.
The fees will also be determined by the stake of the lawsuit.
This involves certain types of cases in which the fees will partially be determined depending on the result as and when the law allows it.
The sense of Humanity.
We have included the sense of humanity amongst our essential values and we take this value into account when it comes to determine the fees and the methods of payment.
Remember that we are always open to adjustments and compromises to allow everyone to have access to the services that we offer in the conditions that are the most adapted to their personal situation.
The aim is to establish particular methods of payment or to adapt the determination of the fees to a particularly difficult situation.
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