Morgan Jamet presents the firm's Contracts department

Morgan Jamet, can you recall your background?

Yes of course. I traditionally started my career as an associate lawyer in business law firms before creating my own firm, which was called Arst Avocats. I wanted to create a so-called full-service business law firm. And in fifteen years, it has become a structure of just over twenty lawyers and jurists who intervene in several areas of expertise. As far as I am concerned, I have remained very attached to a very varied practice, made up of both advice and litigation, in contract law, commercial law law, law of companies in difficulty, commercial leases and even law. business criminals. I manage very diverse projects, contractual, acquisition, transmission structuring, etc. I am lucky to be able to rely on very good teams with whom I enjoy working.

Specifically, what can you tell us about the Contracts department of Arst Avocats

It is a team, today, of two partners, Jefferson Larue and myself, and four collaborators and lawyers. A fifth should join us soon. We manage a wide variety of contractual issues. From simple requests for advice or revisions on draft contracts submitted to our clients to the contractual organization of networks, the establishment of standard contracts for our clients, the creation of new types of contracts or the development of complex contracts , management of all phases of contract life. We operate in a multitude of areas: commercial contracts, IT or digital contracts, distribution , renewable energies, etc.

We have developed strong skills in certain types of interventions, such as the creation and management of franchise networks or mass contractual audits (Jefferson Larue having relatively unique experience in this field), etc. We can say that Jefferson knew how to imagine and manage an auditing machine and I a franchising machine. This is part of our professional pride.

The activity of the department is also constantly diversifying with very regular requests of a new kind: regulatory audits, requests for secondment in companies, types of contracts not practiced until now, requests for specific training, etc.

What are the strengths of this department?

A very strong motivation, which allows to have a great reactivity. A certain creativity and a lot of pragmatism. Contracts are thought of as tools created so that customers can use them as easily as possible. And this thanks to a great listening of the customers, which makes it possible to live with them their projects, to appropriate them and to respect the object and the spirit of the relations sought, obviously with all the councils which are essential. The crucial moment is often the first meeting(s), when we get into the project with the client and break it down

Doesn't a Contracts department in a law firm surprise some clients?

Yes, because a received idea continues to have a certain force, which is that the establishment of contracts is above all the business of in-house lawyers. I, who for more than fifteen years gave a significant amount of training to lawyers, particularly on the reform of contract law , I was able to note the astonishment of some to discover that this activity existed in law firms. Some even wonder what a lawyer could bring them in this area! Some are of course used to it. This activity obviously has its place and has long been in law firms. It is even a very natural extension of our activity which is to listen, advise and write the law. As a result, some clients do not even have the idea of ​​asking their lawyer for the establishment of contracts. If not everyone knows how to do it, firms, like ours, make it their business.

What future do you want for this department?

Always more new clients and new projects (laughs). Within the firm, that it allows each lawyer or jurist to have the practice that he likes and flourishes there, until why not manage to create or retain a clientele if he wishes. For the firm, to become a reference in this field, not only for its technicality but also for its way of working with clients, in an accessible and human way.