Our vision

Defend

Criminal defense is at the heart of our practice. We use the legal arsenal in a targeted and pragmatic way to assert your rights.

Anticipate

Our experience in litigation has forged our ability to anticipate risks and therefore to better advise you to prevent such risks.

Innovate

We create innovative, pragmatic solutions that can be adapted to your organization.

Develop

We act as “business partners” for our clients, using the law as a mean of securing your strategy and increasing your growth.

Litigation strategy: winning the case before it goes to trial

We are convinced that a case can be won before it goes to trial.

Together with our clients, we set up an adapted litigation strategy.

Before going to trial, we make sure that evidence is gathered and that our clients’ rights are preserved (precautionary measures, seizures before proceedings, freezing of accounts, etc.).

During the proceedings, we anticipate and prepare our clients for all stages (response to inspection, hearing, police custody, confrontation, hearing, etc.): personalized coaching, training / simulation / role-playing with questions and answers, research and preparation of exhibits / evidence to be produced, etc.

We prepare your defense strategy as far in advance as possible, in order to secure it and to convince our interlocutor (prosecutor, supervisory authority, criminal court, etc.).

Ensuring your compliance: anticipating risks and controls

Our experience in both criminal and commercial litigation, and our knowledge of the business world, its constraints and challenges, have enabled us to develop real expertise in preventing risks and ensuring that companies are as well prepared as possible in the event of a control by the authorities.

Operational vision of the law: transforming constraints into tools for growth

At our firm, we take a pragmatic, operational approach of the law, turning it into a genuine tool for achieving corporate objectives. We are agile in serving our clients. We value complementary profiles, cross-functionality and multidisciplinarity, so that we can work with our clients to develop solutions that address their specific needs.

A network-headed firm: mobilizing the best skills for the job

We are able to mobilize a customized team at any time to handle the most complex cases and provide you with a global response that is perfectly adapted to your issues and effective.

In defense matters, we call on the services of legal experts (registered with the courts of appeal), engineers (in construction, agri-food, for example), laboratories or specialized consultants (finance, industry, certification bodies, etc.) to test and reinforce our arguments.

In compliance matters, we seek out all the necessary complementary expertise and work in agile mode with in-house legal or compliance teams, or their usual legal counsel (e.g. in labor, tax or competition law) and third-party advisors (e.g. economists, accountants, financial experts, real estate experts, communications consultants, etc.).

The firm is a co-founder and member of the Compliance League, a network of compliance experts [logo and link to website]. The firm has built up a network of correspondents in France and abroad: It is a member of the international section of ACE, “Avocats Conseils d’Entreprise” (including a network in the EU and the USA) and ACFE (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners).

An innovative firm: legaltechs at the service of our clients

Ethicorp is a SAAS solution for gathering and processing alerts, as well as for case management, made available to our clients to help them process alerts and investigate facts in complete confidentiality. The internal investigation can then be handled by the firm’s lawyers or by any other person.

Ethimap is a SAAS solution for risk mapping and action plan follow-up, fully configurable according to customer requirements. This tool can be used for all types of risk (corruption, corporate sustainability due diligence, legal, operational, etc.).

Interested in our solutions? Visit the website ethicorp.org or contact William Feugère for a demo.