Criminal defence · urgent proceedings
The first hours decide the case. Do not spend them alone.
Custody, search, summons: what you say before your lawyer arrives can follow you for years. Call first. We come to the station, we sit beside you, and nothing is signed without us.
- 24/7
- custody line, answered by a lawyer
- 45 min
- to reach any station in the area
- €0
- for the first call, always
What we defend
Practice areas, fees stated
Every matter starts with a number, not a surprise, the fee guidance is printed on each page.
Family law
Divorce, custody, support and protection orders, steady guidance through decisions that touch your children and your home.
Employment law
Dismissal, contract disputes and workplace conflict, for employees and small employers who want their position assessed straight.
Real estate & construction
Purchases, leases, co-ownership and building defects, the law of the place you live or the site you build.
Business & commercial law
Contracts, partner disputes and debt recovery, legal groundwork that lets a small company grow without gambling.
Criminal defence
Police custody, investigations and trial, a defence that starts the moment the phone rings, not the week after.
Inheritance & estates
Wills, estates and family disputes over what is left, settled with method, before they consume the inheritance itself.
Who stands next to you
The defence team
Élise Marchand
Founding partner, family law & estates
at the bar since2004
Divorce, custody, matrimonial assets, estates
Élise founded the firm in 2009 after nine years in a leading regional family-law practice. She has pleaded more than four hundred family cases, and still believes most of them should never reach a courtroom.
Admitted to the bar in 2004, she is a trained family mediator and teaches matrimonial asset law to bar-school students. Clients know her for the same directness she brings to court: what your case is worth, what it will cost, and what she would do in your place.
- Bar admission: 2004
- Certified family mediator
- Lecturer, regional bar school
e.marchand@yourfirm.com
Thomas Béranger
Partner, employment & business law
at the bar since2011
Dismissal, contracts, commercial disputes, recovery
Thomas joined the firm in 2013 and became a partner in 2019. Before the bar he spent three years in-house at an industrial SME, an experience that shaped how he practises: he writes advice the way managers read it, one page, options ranked.
Admitted in 2011, he defends employees and small employers alike, which gives him something rare in negotiations: he knows exactly what the other side’s file looks like.
- Bar admission: 2011
- Postgraduate degree in labour law
- Former in-house counsel, industrial SME
t.beranger@yourfirm.com
Nadia Belkacem
Associate, criminal defence
at the bar since2018
Custody assistance, criminal trials, traffic offences
Nadia handles the firm’s criminal work, from police custody assistance to trial. She joined in 2020 after training with a criminal-defence chambers known for taking the cases nobody else wanted, a habit she kept.
Admitted to the bar in 2018, she is on the duty rotation for urgent custody assistance and has pleaded before the criminal courts every month since. She answers the emergency line herself: in her field, the first hour is the case.
- Bar admission: 2018
- Duty lawyer, urgent custody rotation
- Trained in cross-examination advocacy
n.belkacem@yourfirm.com
Money, said first
How fees work here
The first call is free
You tell us the situation, we tell you what is at stake and what we would do, no fee, no obligation.
A written fee agreement
Signed before we act. Fixed for defined proceedings, hourly for the open-ended ones, in writing either way.
Itemised invoices
Every hour accounted for. Legal aid taken where you qualify, we tell you if you do.
Nothing starts unsigned
fee agreement first
What protects you when you talk to us
Professional secrecy
Everything you tell us stays privileged, by law.
Bar registration
A regulated profession, overseen by the bar council.
Conflict checks
Run before we open any file, without exception.
Written agreements
Fees agreed on paper before anything begins.
Confidential, read by a lawyer only
Book an appointment
For anything urgent, call, the line is answered at any hour. For the rest, three lines here and we come back to you within the working day.
In custody, or someone you love is?01 23 45 67 89