Discover the career of Linda Azizi, lawyer in business law litigation

As a business law litigation lawyer, can you tell us about your background and what led you to join Arst Avocats?

I have been a lawyer for over twenty years now. I remember always wanting to do this job. I practiced mainly in business firms in which I was in charge of significant litigation cases, national or even international. Gradually, I created for myself a frequent practice in the field of construction , which I like for its extremely practical and technical aspect. Over the past year and a half, I have found a dynamic environment at Arst Avocats which allows me to practice as I have always wanted, namely in close proximity to clients, in a spirit of partnership with them and with a modern and progressive approach to the legal profession.

What is your vision of business law litigation?

I like business law litigation because it leads to becoming one with a client's problem for which a given result must be achieved. This requires developing a strategy, seeking the best means, legal and non-legal, to achieve this result and constantly adapting to a changing situation and/or to an adversary who is pursuing the diametrically opposed objective. It is a subject whose practice has been greatly improved by the technical developments of recent years which have made it possible to overcome a certain number of material contingencies and to have better access to various essential resources in the management of a dispute, such as court decisions.

What do you feel you bring to your clients in the management of their business law litigation issues?

The answer is very delicate (laughs). It is to them that it would be necessary to ask it in fact. First of all my expertise, linked to my years of practice, without wanting to age me more than I am. Next, a point of view outside their own, which sometimes makes it possible to put the dispute into perspective in a different way and to consider other solutions or a mode of treatment more suited to the situation. Finally, I usually tell my clients, when they entrust me with the defense of their interests, that their problem is now mine. I try to relieve them of it and very often that is what they are looking for and appreciate.

What are the subjects and/or legal matters that you particularly like to deal with as a lawyer?

As I said before, I consider myself a litigation lawyer. In general, I like all kinds of litigation, civil, commercial and even administrative. Now it is true that the chance of files and meetings gave me the opportunity to create mini-specialties. For example, I had the opportunity to deal several times with disorder files concerning sports grounds and I fell in love with these subjects – even though I am not a sports person myself (laughs) – which are very technical and make you walk through lawns to deal with sometimes complex legal subjects. I also like the treatment of very classic subjects of contractual disputes, in terms of liability, hidden defects , breach of established commercial relations , securities... I discovered within the firm Arst Avocats the litigation of the responsibility of the State because of the defective functioning of justice and it is yet another new form of litigation that I find interesting and that I would like to develop, because it also makes it possible to raise public authorities' awareness of the need to restore respectful justice expectations of litigants.

The final word ?

I couldn't tell you because I'm not at the end (laughs), I'm still in an endless progression in the legal profession. We accompany society in its constantly renewed problems and that is what keeps us so young.