Business law · contracts · disputes
Legal counsel that reads your business first.
Contracts drafted for how you actually operate, structures that survive growth, and disputes handled with the balance sheet in mind. Advice you can put in front of a board.
250+
contracts drafted last year
48h
to a first written opinion
100%
of engagements under written fee agreements
Section 01
Practice areas
Family law
Divorce, custody, support and protection orders, steady guidance through decisions that touch your children and your home.
Urgent matters
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.
Urgent matters
Inheritance & estates
Wills, estates and family disputes over what is left, settled with method, before they consume the inheritance itself.
Section 02
The partners on your file

Élise Marchand
Founding partner, family law & estates
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
bar admission2004

Thomas Béranger
Partner, employment & business law
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
bar admission2011

Nadia Belkacem
Associate, criminal defence
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
bar admission2018
Section 03
Fees, structured like the work
01
Scoping consultation
A stated fixed price. We map the matter, the risks and the options, you leave with a written summary either way.
02
Fee agreement
Scope, timeline and fee structure in writing, fixed for defined work, capped hourly for the open-ended.
03
Itemised billing
Monthly statements your finance team can audit line by line. No rounded-up hours, no surprises at closing.
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.
Section 04
Put the matter on the table
Three lines are enough for a first read. A partner (not an assistant) comes back to you within 48 hours, with the scoping fee stated upfront.
Read under professional secrecy
