Jean-Louis Lodomez

Partner

Lawyer at the Court of Paris
Lawyer at the Brussels Bar

Law degree (University of Leuven) (distinction)
Special degree in European law (University of Louvain-la-Neuve)
Graduated in journalism (Institute for Journalists of Belgium – Brussels)
Certificate of competence to act as a lawyer in France (Capa) (French Bars Training School - Paris)
Certificate of aptitude to exercise the functions of deputy judge and or deputy counsel at the Court of Appeal (High Council of Justice – Belgium).

Languages
French, Dutch, English – functional knowledge of Spanish and German

Experience

Began his career at the European Commission as trainee and then as contractual agent in the Directorate-General for the Internal Market and Industrial Affairs as part of a team responsible for detecting and prosecuting infringements by Member States of the rules on the free movement of goods within the Community.

He then joined the Brussels Bar and became an associate of his former professor of Institutional and judicial law of the European Communities.

The Parisian law firm Dubarry Leveque Le Douarin Servan Schreiber & Veil then recruited him as a partner. In that respect, he followed a training in French law, successfully passed the examinations leading to the issue of the Certificate of Ability to practise the profession of lawyer in France delivered by the French Bars Training School. He thus obtained the title of “Avocat à la Cour de Paris” and took over the management of the Brussels office of this renowned law firm.

Ten years later, he joined the Parisian law firm Ds International and became the head of the European office in Brussels.

He then set up the Lawell law firm with other colleagues, continuing the project as part of a more human-scale structure, which took the name Lawellmcmiller in view of the development of its relations with Canada. After being asked to set up the Brussels office of a large Canadian firm, which has now been dissolved, and to develop the Brussels entity of one of the largest law firms, he opted for freedom, independence and the virtues of "Small is beautiful", but with the support of a French and Canadian network, while at the same time becoming part of what is presented as one of the largest groupings of French-speaking and independent law firms: Alta-Juris International.

His experience has been sharpened by his work as a Lecturer for more than fifteen years at Catholic University Faculties in Mons (now Uclouvain Fucam - Mons) where he taught European Institutional and Judicial Law and International Trade courses.

He is the author of several publications, including a book on the “European, Belgian and French Economic Interest Grouping“, published by De Boeck.

He is also Vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce Canada, Belgium and Luxembourg (CanCham Belux) and a member of the International Commission of the North of Europe Commission of Alta-Juris International, the international network of independent law firms of which the Firm is member.

Julie Lodomez

Partner

Member of the Brussels and Paris Bars
Chartered Mediator approved by the (Belgian) Federal Mediation Commission (since 2015)
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Law degree (Free University of Brussels)
Special degree in International Business Law (Free University of Brussels) (Magna cum laude)
Training in civil and commercial mediation and integrative negotiation techniques (Pmr Europe).
Data Protection Officer Certificate, (Data Protection Institute - Antwerpen)

Languages
French, Dutch, English

Experience

She began her career at the Urban Justice Center in New York, a platform for a new generation of advocates committed to paving the way for a fair, equitable and decent society, and securing a better future for the most vulnerable communities. She discovered on this occasion the modus operandi of legal proceedings in the United States.

She then joined the Brussels bar and the Lawell law firm in 2005. She practices business law with a focus on intellectual property law.

She became a member of the Paris Bar in 2010.

In 2014 as a partner and co-founder she joined Lawellmcmiller and continued the same practice there.

As a lawyer, she contributes to the work of the European Institute For Expertise And Experts (EEEI), a European think tank whose objective is "to contribute, through its work, to the convergence of national systems of judicial expertise and to guarantee, throughout the European legal area, the legal certainty of judicial decisions through the quality of the expertise carried out on court decisions".

She is a member of the Institute’s Executive Committee and Communication Commission, and is involved in projects funded by the European Commission aimed at establishing a European Code of Good Practice for expertise and a European list of experts.

After completing a training course given by the Data Protection Institute and concluded with a certificate, she also acts as DPO (Data Protection Officer) in various sectors of the economy. She regularly gives training courses to raise awareness of the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation, using a practical, hands-on approach.

She is also a member of the Belgian Association For The Study Of Competition and of the International Competition League, the Canadian Chamber Of Commerce Belgium Luxemburg (CANCHAM BELUX) and is President of the International Commission and of the Northern Europe Region of the Alta-Juris International law group, of which the Firm is a member.