Comprehensive legal expertise, serving your rights and your projects.

Comprehensive legal expertise, serving your rights and your projects.

The Charles MOREL law firm provides expert and dedicated services in a variety of areas, offering personalized support to businesses, individuals, and associations, both in an advisory capacity and in litigation.

Criminal law

The Charles MOREL law firm works in all areas of criminal law, whether general criminal law (violence of any kind and severity, offences against property or persons, traffic offences), business criminal law (misuse of company assets, fraud, money laundering, corruption), labor criminal law (safety and hygiene offenses, undeclared work, moral or sexual harassment), or environmental criminal law (pollution, non-compliance with environmental regulations).
The firm defends individuals and legal entities at all stages of criminal proceedings. Familiar with criminal courts, correctional courts, and the investigating chamber, it never gives up, thirsty for justice and committed to speaking out strongly and fairly to achieve the desired and predefined outcome.

Labor law

The Charles MOREL law firm is committed to labor law, representing both employees and employers. It defends employees in cases of unfair dismissal, moral or sexual harassment, or discrimination, and ensures that their rights are protected before the labor courts.
The firm also advises small and medium-sized businesses on the day-to-day management of their labor relations: drafting contracts, implementing disciplinary procedures, conducting internal investigations in cases of harassment, negotiating with labor unions, and resolving individual or collective disputes.

Press law

Specializing in press law, the Charles MOREL law firm assists journalists, authors, publishers, and media outlets in defending their freedom of expression and managing disputes related to the publication of information. It acts in cases of defamation, libel, invasion of privacy, or image rights, providing its expertise in both preventive advice and litigation before civil and criminal courts.
The firm also works alongside companies and media professionals to ensure the legal compliance of their content and protect their editorial responsibility.

Intellectual property

In the field of intellectual property, Charles MOREL regularly advises authors (writers, screenwriters, playwrights, poets, illustrators, composers, lyricists, arrangers, choreographers, photographers, painters, sculptors, etc.), artists (actors, musicians, DJs, singers, dancers, comedians) and companies involved in audiovisual production, the music industry, publishing, photography, the art market, and information technology.
It assists them in the implementation and application of their contractual policy (rights transfer agreements, co-production agreements, licensing or distribution agreements, trademark or patent licenses) and in the amicable or judicial settlement of their disputes.

Internal investigations

Charles MOREL assists companies in conducting internal investigations aimed at identifying, analyzing, and addressing reprehensible or non-compliant behavior, such as harassment, discrimination, fraud, or conflicts of interest. The firm acts with complete confidentiality and impartiality to ensure the legal security of the process, while respecting the rights of the parties involved.
It is involved at all stages: defining the scope of the investigation, gathering testimony and evidence, legal analysis of the facts, and strategic recommendations for an appropriate resolution, including the management of legal and media risks.

  • LABOUR LAW
  • GENERAL CRIMINAL LAW
  • CRIMINAL LAW IN BUSINESS, LABOUR AND THE ENVIRONMENT
  • PRESS AND MEDIA LAW
  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
  • CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL LITIGATION
  • INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS
  • CRISIS MANAGEMENT

Crisis management

The firm assists companies, institutions, and individuals facing critical situations, whether legal, media-related, or strategic. Our approach is based on a rapid and accurate analysis of the issues at stake, the implementation of tailor-made solutions, and coordination with multidisciplinary experts. Whether responding to a criminal emergency, managing sensitive litigation, or protecting a client's reputation in the face of a media crisis, we offer rigorous and proactive expertise. Our priority is to secure your interests and restore the stability necessary for you to continue your activities.

Recent interventions:

  • Defense and assistance for employees and executives of major international banks, a television channel, a multinational fossil fuel company, an IT services company, a luxury brand, and civil servants in the national education system and hospitals who were victims of moral harassment or discrimination, both before labor and criminal courts;

  • Defense of companies accused of various financial offenses by the DDPP/DGCCRF; criminal proceedings for breaches of URSSAF regulations, etc.;

  • Internal investigation for an NGO in a war zone;
  • Défense d’un militant historique de la légalisation du cannabis pour usage et détention de stupéfiants (dispense de peine) ;

  • Defense of a long-standing activist for the legalization of cannabis for drug use and possession (exemption from punishment);

  • Defense of a childminder accused of intentional violence against a 15-month-old child in her regular care (acquittal);
  • Defense of a defendant in a defamation case against Christophe Girard, former Deputy Mayor of Paris (acquittal);

  • Assistance to individuals implicated in a preliminary investigation for rape;
  • Assistance, advice, and conduct of proceedings for a victim of incestuous rape during childhood;
  • Assistance to individuals implicated in a preliminary investigation for rape who protest their innocence;
  • Defense of victims of intentional violence before criminal courts for the purpose of obtaining expert opinions to quantify and then enable compensation for the damage suffered;
  • Defense before the courts of authors of live performances or cinematographic works;
  • Comprehensive management of pre-litigation and litigation in civil, commercial, and criminal matters for French and foreign SMEs
  • Removal of defamatory and abusive content on social media;
  • Recovery of Instagram and TikTok accounts belonging to a content creator with several million followers who had been the victim of fraudulent activities.