The firm
Opened in Ermont in July 2025, after twenty-five years working in industry. What follows describes how it is organised and the rules it applies, not what it intends.
Career milestones
See the full career recordSince July 2025
Avocat à la cour
TWA Avocat.s
Val-d'Oise Bar. Advisory and litigation work in employment and social security law, for companies, directors and individuals.
2017 – 2025
Group deputy director, employment law and employee relations
Crédit Immobilier de France
Advising executive management on the group's employment strategy ahead of transformation projects. Running employee relations with union and staff representatives, legal monitoring, and handling of sensitive individual matters and litigation alongside instructed law firms.
2011 – 2014
Employee & Labor Relations Manager
American Express
Steering employment strategy across the group's French entities. Supporting joint ventures, disposals and employment protection plans. Prevention policy and chairing of health and safety committees.
Internal rules
Each rule is stated with the mechanism that gives effect to it. A rule without a mechanism is only a declaration.
A single point of contact
The rule
The lawyer you meet at the first appointment is the one who handles the matter, from start to finish.
The mechanism
The firm is a sole practice. There is no team to delegate to, and no billing for time spent by someone you have not met. The trade-off is a limited capacity, stated before a matter is opened.
Conflicts of interest
The rule
No first meeting is arranged before a conflicts check has been carried out.
The mechanism
The check covers every matter, open and closed, and related parties. It is recorded and retained. The firm acts for companies and for employees, never in the same dispute.
Professional secrecy
The rule
A client's name is never cited, even where the matter has become public.
The mechanism
The matters presented on this site are described by their nature. The organisations named on the career page relate to an in-house career predating admission to the bar, not to the firm's clients.
Fees
The rule
A written fee agreement is drawn up before any work begins, in accordance with article 10 of the Act of 31 December 1971.
The mechanism
It states the basis of calculation, an estimate of the expected volume, and how the client is informed if it is exceeded. The first exchange, which serves to scope the request, is not charged for.
Declining a matter
The rule
The firm declines matters it cannot handle within the useful timescale, or that fall in an area it does not practise.
The mechanism
The refusal is reasoned and immediate, and comes with a referral to another practitioner where possible, with no consideration of any kind. Accepting a matter outside one's competence costs the client more than a refusal.
How the firm works
How a matter is opened, run and, where appropriate, referred on. Each point is stated with its limit.
Opening a matter
- In practice
- Conflicts check, scoping of the request and its deadline, then a written fee agreement. The matter is opened only once the agreement is signed.
- The limit
- In cases of established urgency, work may precede the agreement; it is then formalised as soon as possible, as article 10 of the 1971 Act permits.
Running a matter
- In practice
- A written update at every step that commits: receipt of a document, a procedural deadline, a decision to be taken. Documents are kept under a single reference given to the client.
- The limit
- The firm does not issue automatic periodic reports. A progress report with nothing to report consumes billable time without informing.
Correspondents
- In practice
- Areas the firm does not practise — tax, intellectual property, general criminal law — are entrusted to another practitioner chosen matter by matter, with the client's agreement.
- The limit
- The firm belongs to no network and receives no referral fee on such introductions. The choice is therefore never constrained by a pre-existing arrangement.