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

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

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