Civil Law
Family Law
- Annulment or cancellation of marriages, divorces, post-divorce litigation, separations
- Change in and liquidation of matrimonial property systems
- Proceedings for fixing the place of residence of children, parental custody, contribution to the upkeep and education of children, alimony between cohabitees and partners of a French civil partnership
- International divorces, international child abductions
- Parentage, domestic-international adoptions
- Successions, court-ordered partitions, auction sales
Individual and personality rights
- Birth, marriage and death certificates, modification of civil status registers regarding first and last names, and gender
- Protection of legally incapable adults (wardship and guardianship)
- Right to physical integrity
- Right to privacy
- Right to the protection of one’s image
Property Law
- Actions related to property law (e.g. infringement of property rights, encumbrances)
- Neighborhood disputes (e.g. abnormal neighborhood disturbances, disputes related to construction law)
Obligations Law
- Tort
- Liability for defective goods
- Domestic accidents
- Road accidents
- Ski accidents
- Litigation involving an animal
- Drafting of contracts
- Cancellation/termination/rescission of contracts
- Contractual liability (e.g. medical liability)
- Insurance Law
- Rental disputes
- Eviction
- Termination of lease
Criminal Law, International Criminal Law and Human Rights
Traffic offences
- Driver’s licence loss of point
- Road accident compensation procedure
Offenses against individuals
- Violence
- Theft
- Rape
- 2nd-degree murder
- 1st-degree murder
Property-related offenses and financial offenses
- Deterioration
- Destruction
- Theft
- Fraud
- Breach of trust
- Fencing
- Money-laundering
- Drug trafficking
Victim compensation, including but not limited to the French Commission for the Compensation of victims of crimes (CIVI)
Sentence enforcement
International Criminal Law and Human Rights
- Crime of genocide
- Crimes against humanity
- War crimes
- Crime of aggression
Rights of individuals under compulsory psychiatric care
Withdrawal of compulsory hospitalization measures
Compensation
Business Law and Criminal Business Law
Commercial Law
- Collection of receivables
- Settlement of disputes pertaining to commercial contracts, in particular under the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna, April 11th, 1980)
- Liability (e.g. in the field of construction)
Corporate Law
- Creation of a company, drafting of and amendment to articles of association
- Day-to-day management of companies
- Drafting of commercial contracts
- Disposal, acquisition of businesses, commercial leases
- Liability of the company, of its manager
Insolvency law
- Safeguard proceedings, receivership, court-ordered liquidation
Consumer Law
- Abusive commercial practices
- Deceitful commercial practices
- Improper invoicing
Criminal Business Law
- Criminal liability of the manager
- Misappropriation of corporate assets
Economic Law
Competition Law
- Anti-competitive practices (anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominance, predatory pricing)
Distribution Law
- Franchise, exclusive procurement, exclusive license, selective distribution agreements
- Sales agent agreements
Intellectual property law
- Counterfeiting and infringement
- Plagiarism
- Literary and artistic property rights
- Author’s rights
- Performer’s rights
- Industrial property rights
- Trademark
- Patent
- Design
Labor Law and Criminal Labor Law
Labor Law: defending the employer or the employee
- Drafting of employment contracts
- Layoffs
- Occupational health and safety
- International mobility
Criminal labor law
- Occupational accidents
- Failure to fulfill a specific security requirement
- Moral and sexual harassment
- Discrimination
- Violations of individual freedoms and privacy