Barssie Avocats advises and defends members of regulated and liberal professions, including lawyers, doctors, notaries, bailiffs and other professions bound by strict ethical rules, when they face disciplinary proceedings, ethics inspections or professional disputes before their professional bodies. The stakes are high: these proceedings can engage the professional’s liability, damage their reputation and, in some cases, call into question their very right to practise.

The firm acts at every stage of the proceedings, whether during preliminary inquiries, hearings before disciplinary boards or appeals against decisions sanctioning an ethical breach. It assists clients in preparing their defence, asserting their rights and challenging unfavourable decisions before the competent courts.

Barssie Avocats also represents professionals who are victims of unfounded accusations, malicious false reports or attacks on their reputation in the course of their practice. It designs tailored defence strategies combining disciplinary law and criminal law, in order to establish the absence of misconduct or reduce the penalties incurred.