A team dedicated to excellence and legal commitment.
A team dedicated to excellence and legal commitment.
Discover a multidisciplinary team combining expertise, commitment, and humanity, dedicated to providing tailor-made legal solutions for individuals, businesses, and associations.
Charles MOREL
A career at the crossroads of law, the arts, humanist commitment, and entrepreneurship.
After four years with international law firms (Alain Bensoussan and Bird & Bird), Charles MOREL founded a law firm in September 2002 dedicated to criminal defense, employee rights, press and media law, and representing the interests of various players in the art world.
Charles MOREL is a former Second Secretary of the Paris Bar Association (class of 2000), which led him to give a speech on The Trial of Pierre Goldman (video recording) at the Paris Bar Association's formal opening ceremony. It was on this occasion that he met Georges Kiejman, who opened his archives to him, with whom he became friends and whom he represented as a civil party in the Clearstream trial.
In September 2022, he decided to set up his own law firm. His practice is divided between labor law, intellectual property and new technology law, criminal law, and press law, both in an advisory capacity and in litigation.
Charles MOREL puts into practice with ever-renewed joy and inexhaustible enthusiasm his humanist commitment and eco-feminist convictions, his passion for the arts, and his love of others.
A staunch defender of the rule of law and fundamental freedoms, in June 2021, at the request of the main players, he agreed to create and chair the Union of CBD Professionals, which is facing a rearguard battle against a prohibitionist state that, through ignorance and ideology, is betraying the social contract of which it is the guarantor and raison d'être. He thus led the victorious fight against the interministerial decree of December 30, 2021, intended to liquidate the cannabidiol (CBD) industry without delay and without compensation. He chose to file for an interim injunction and engage in civil disobedience. On January 24, 2022, the decree was suspended (summary judgment of the Council of State), then definitively annulled in December 2022.
As an artist's agent, he was also curator of the exhibition dedicated to the works of Patrick Ullmann at the foot of the Saint-Jacques tower, at the Basia Embiricos gallery, in the village of Saint-Paul and at the Théâtre de la Ville. In October 2024, he published a book entitled “Portrait d'artistes” (Portraits of Artists) with Ramsay Publishing and is currently working on a biography of this fabulous portrait artist.
Since 2022, he has organized eight exhibition-concerts at his office, featuring artists who share a common quality and intention of paying attention to nature, the subject or material of their work, and participates in the desire to bring together an ever-expanding egregore around the awareness of the Anthropocene and the need to rethink our relationship to the world, to others, to the animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms.
> See the artists featured or exhibited during the exhibition-concerts
He is the author of a first novel, Généalogie d’un coup de foudre (Genealogy of Love at First Sight), published by Ramsay on August 21, 2024 (see the section Furthermore).
- Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Public Service Section (1992)
- Bachelor's, Master's, and DEA in Public Law – Paris I
- Institut de droit public des affaires at EFB
- Former lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and Paris XII
Rodolphe CHAUVET
An international career dedicated to committed and personalized defense.
With a rich and diverse academic background (Sciences Po, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Laval University in Canada, Saint Petersburg University in Russia), Rodolphe has been working with Charles Morel for over two years and practices criminal law, business criminal law, labor law, press law, and civil and commercial litigation, doing everything possible to provide a committed, determined, and personalized defense to clients who call on the firm, while demonstrating great attentiveness and availability to them.
Before joining the firm, he gained solid experience working for both small criminal law firms and a large American law firm. He gained an understanding of how the courts work by working for several months with a judge at the Paris Court of Appeal and also worked for an international bank in Paris.
Laura BLERON WALENCIK
A young legal professional committed to justice and human rights.
Laura holds a double Master’s degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences as well as in European and International Studies. She is currently preparing for the CRFPA entrance exam at the Institute of Judicial Studies (IEJ) of the Universities of Bordeaux and Bayonne.
Before joining the firm in September 2024, Laura completed several internships in law firms specializing in criminal law and immigration law. She also worked as a legal advisor for an association defending LGBTQI+ rights and gained experience at the Central Office for the Fight Against Crimes Against Humanity and Hate Crimes (OCLCH).
She now provides support to the firm's lawyers.
Adriana ROT LAUGEL
A trainee lawyer with legal expertise bridging criminal law and international challenges.
Graduated in African law and comparative law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and holder of an MSc in International Security and Leadership from King’s College London, Adriana has focused on human rights and constitutional law issues in Africa.
Before joining the firm in January 2025, she worked with a humanitarian and legal aid NGO as a legal research assistant, strengthening her expertise in transitional justice and international criminal law.
Adriana then worked in London for two years as a security analyst for a multinational company, supporting economic and humanitarian actors in their operations across Africa and Europe.
Lastly, she deepened her knowledge of criminal procedure within the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal.
N’Deye Binetou GALLÉ
A young trainee lawyer committed to international criminal justice and human rights:
N’Deye Binetou is a trainee lawyer holding two Master’s degrees — one in International and Comparative Criminal Law, and another in African Law. She knew early on that she wanted to become a criminal lawyer, both in France and internationally.
Driven by a strong interest in the African continent, she chose to focus her studies on African legal systems with a cross-disciplinary approach, specializing in transitional justice and comparative legal practices across Africa.
Before joining the firm in January 2025, she gained experience in general and business criminal law during a professional placement in Senegal. She also worked in several Paris-based law firms specializing in criminal law and labor law.
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