Counsel you keep for the decisions that count.
Family, work, property, business: we defend what took you years to build, with fees stated in writing and a lawyer who answers you personally.
- 25+
- years at the bar
- 2,400
- matters handled
- 48h
- to a first written answer
- 1
- lawyer owns your file, end to end
Areas of practice
Each area carries its own fee guidance, stated before you ever sit down with us.
Family law
Divorce, custody, support and protection orders, steady guidance through decisions that touch your children and your home.
flat fees from €1,200Urgent mattersEmployment law
Dismissal, contract disputes and workplace conflict, for employees and small employers who want their position assessed straight.
case assessment €250Real estate & construction
Purchases, leases, co-ownership and building defects, the law of the place you live or the site you build.
from €180/hourBusiness & commercial law
Contracts, partner disputes and debt recovery, legal groundwork that lets a small company grow without gambling.
retainer from €390/monthCriminal defence
Police custody, investigations and trial, a defence that starts the moment the phone rings, not the week after.
custody assistance from €600Urgent mattersInheritance & estates
Wills, estates and family disputes over what is left, settled with method, before they consume the inheritance itself.
from €160/hourWho will handle your case
Not a desk that dispatches files: the lawyer you meet is the lawyer who pleads.

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
How fees work
Predictable in method, stated in writing. The rest of the relationship is built on it.
I.
A first consultation at a stated price
You know the cost of the first meeting before you book it. You leave with an honest view of your case, including when it is not worth fighting.
II.
A written fee agreement
Before any work starts you sign a fee agreement: scope, method of billing (hourly, flat or results-based) and what happens if the case changes course.
III.
Itemised invoices, no meter running
Each invoice lists who did what and when. If new work appears, we ask before we bill, never after.
Bound by more than a contract
The rules of the profession protect you before any engagement letter does.

Professional secrecy
Everything you tell us is privileged, even before you become a client.
Registered with the bar
Every lawyer here is registered and subject to the bar’s oversight, each admission year is public and shown on this site.
Conflict check before we accept
We verify that no conflict of interest exists before opening any file, and we decline when one does.
Written fee agreements
Billing terms are agreed and signed before the work begins, never discovered on an invoice.
Request an appointment
Tell us briefly what your matter concerns. We reply within 48 hours, and this exchange is already covered by professional secrecy.
