Lawyer and politician is the same business

Dominique Perben had want "something new". Sixty-five years, the former keeper of the seals decided to endorse the dress of counsel. He joins the very exclusive club of quarantine of litigants who now sit on the banks of the National Assembly. Member of the Rhône has chosen to integrate as a partner a young cabinet, created in 2009 by Antoine Beauquier, Felix de Belloy and Raphaël Gauvain. The three former Secretaries of the Conference of the stage - one illustrates argument contest that rewards the best lawyers - from business firms respectively have forty-three, thirty-five and thirty-six years. Specializing in litigation, cabinet is involved in the litigation of commercial, banking, stock and criminal law. Dominique Perben, he will support the arbitration records in institutional and ad hoc bodies both at the national and international levels.

Judicial revolutions

Elected officials do not abandons the policy. Rapporteur of the project, it must still carry out the difficult reform of territorial communities. "Lawyer and politician, is the same business... at the bottom, it is to scan a folder and find solutions," said the former Minister of Justice who has concocted, among other things, the reform of the law of bankruptcy. The new Act introduced including the backup procedure, based on the "chapter 11" American and allows the business manager who is having difficulty to suspend payment of his debts and negotiate with its creditors.

This is not the only reform, far from it, the former keeper of the seals was negotiated. Installed place Vendôme from May 2002 to June 2005 under the Government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Dominique Perben will also reform the law of the family by simplifying the divorce and by relaxing the rules on succession in depth. But criminal "Perben 1" and "Perben 2" laws on the criminality which will trigger the most controversy. The latter introduced the "plea", a small judicial revolution which allows a person who recognizes the charges to "negotiate" his sentence with the prosecution. It is still under his Ministry that will be created proximity judges, magistrates professionals responsible for dealing with small disputes of daily life. But the reform will not meet the expected success. At the time, Dominique Perben also favored a reconciliation of counsel with business lawyers. He was not sure that his new colleagues appreciate this view.

Candidate for Mayor of Lyon in 2008, he refused in June 2009 to return to the Government. But in September of this year that Dominique Perben begins to reflect on the bar. Before him, Pascal Clément and Rachida Dati, the two guards of the seals who succeeded to place Vendôme, also wore the dress of counsel. But Lyon MP chooses to consult other politicians become lawyers as Frédéric Salat-Barroux, former Secretary General of the Elysee Palace under Jacques Chirac, or lawyers met while he was at the Chancery and with whom he has beaten iron, as David Gordon-Krief, former President of the Union of young lawyers (Fnuja), today President of the Unapl. Soon, he takes his decision for the fledgling firm. "The arrival of Dominique Perben reinforces our positioning of departure on the sensitive litigation", one of the co-founders, Antoine Beauquier enthusiasm. In all cases, it has the advantage of speaking to the cabinet.