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 non-profit organizations, both in an advisory capacity and in litigation.

Criminal law

The Charles MOREL law firm is specialized in all areas of criminal law, whether it be general criminal law (violence of all types and severities, offences against property or persons, traffic offences), business criminal law (misuse of company assets, fraud, money laundering, corruption), labor criminal law (healthy and safety violations, 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, the firm is relentless, thirsty for justice and committed to delivering a fair and forceful argument that achieves the desired and predefined outcome.

Labor law

The Charles MOREL law firm is a committed player in labor law, representing both employees and employers. It defends employees in cases of unfair dismissal, moral or sexual harassment, or discrimination, and ensures the preservation of their rights before the labor court.
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 the event of harassment alerts, 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 organizations in defending their freedom of expression and managing disputes related to the publication of information. It handles cases involving libel, insult, invasion of privacy, or image rights, providing 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, the Charles MOREL firm regularly advises authors (writers, screenwriters, playwrights, poets, illustrators, composers, songwriters, 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 with 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 guarantee the legal security of the process, while respecting the rights of the parties concerned.
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.

  • LABOR LAW
  • GENERAL CRIMINAL LAW
  • CRIMINAL LAW IN BUSINESS, LABOR 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 legal, media-related, or strategic situations. 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 French education system and hospital sector who are victims of harassment or discrimination, before labor and criminal courts;

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

  • Internal investigation for an NGO in a war zone;
  • Defense of a long-standing activist for the legalization of cannabis for drug use and possession (exemption from punishment sentence waived);

  • Defense of a preschool assistant accused of intentional violence against a 15-month-old child in her regular care (acquittal);

  • Defense of a civil party and conviction of the perpetrator of for acts of domestic violence and harassment;
  • Defense of a defendant in a libel suit against Christophe Girard, former Deputy Mayor of Paris (acquittal);

  • Assisting individuals implicated in a rape investigation;
  • Assistance, advice, and conduct of proceedings for a victim of incestuous rape during childhood;
  • Assisting defendants implicated in a rape investigation who protest their innocence;
  • Defending victims of intentional violence before criminal courts with the aim of obtaining expert opinions to quantify and compensate them for their loss;
  • Defense before the courts of authors of live performances or cinematographic works;
  • Complete management of pre-litigation and civil, commercial, and criminal litigation for French and foreign SMEs
  • Removing defamatory and abusive content from social media;
  • Recovering the Instagram and TikTok accounts for a content creator with several million followers who was a victim of fraud.