Since European Union law takes precedence over national and international law, the firm has developed under the aegis of Clarisse SAND, member of the European group of lawyers ALPHALEX (https://alphalex-avocats.eu/) a strategy of defense, when the conditions are met, allowing the use of European Union law in defense which produces a direct effect allowing citizens and businesses to invoke it directly before the national judge or the public authority concerned, at the 'against a national or international legal standard, which could prove to be contrary to it.

European Union law therefore constitutes an essential source of law when it comes to setting aside a rule incompatible with the European standard. Mastery of European law, which benefits from considerable binding force, is an essential ally for the lawyer in any strategy before administrative or judicial courts.

Thus, in a transversal manner, the firm has the competence in any matter that it exercises to identify either according to the litigation or according to the activity of its clients the European standards which apply and to verify their conformity with the commitments that the French state has taken on the European institutions.

In addition to the exercise of a full defense raising the relevant arguments of European law at all levels of the judicial or administrative proceedings in which it intervenes, the firm supports its clients in filing and investigating any infringement complaint before the European Commission in Brussels. European obligations resulting from the Treaties or for violation of competition rules, to conduct the necessary negotiations before national and European public authorities, to obtain, investigate and plead a preliminary ruling before the Court of Justice of the European Union or an interpretative opinion at the European Court of Human Rights or to introduce, investigate and plead an application before the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.