Cécile Martin > Ogletree Deakins > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile

Ogletree Deakins
Ogletree Deakins, cabinet dédié au droit social
58 bis rue la boétie
75008 Paris
France

Work Department

Labor and Employment Law

Position

Managing Partner

Career

Cécile Martin is the Managing Partner of the Ogletree Deakins Paris office. She advises clients on compensation policies (including material risk takers), discrimination and harassment litigation, corporate restructuring, mass redundancies plans as well as collective litigation. By starting her career at the French Data Protection Agency (CNIL), Cecile has developed leading-edge skills particularly on topics related to GDPR employee monitoring at the workplace, whistleblowing alerts, social media use, and international data transfer.

Cécile is a member of the CDPO France Advisory Board and Co-Chair of the Paris KnowledgeNet of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and is also a member of the firm’s International and Data Privacy practice groups.

She is ranked by Chambers & Partners Europe since 2020 and is recognized by Best Lawyers since 2021.

In 2022, Cécile Martin has been awarded “Lawyer of the Year” for France in the Labour and Employment Law category of the international Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2022 Winners Edition, which annually recognizes the best lawyers worldwide.

She lectures on data protection law at Paris La Sorbonne University.

 

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Languages

French, English

Memberships

  • International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) : member of the CDPO Advisory Board and Co-Chair of the Paris branch of KnowledgeNet
  • Avosial
  • IDS (Labor Law Institute)
  • In charge of the personal data protection course for the Master 2 in Corporate Social Protection Law (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
  • Association of Former Officials of the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL)

Education

  • DESS Droit du Travail et de la Santé, Université de Paris XI

Admittance to Practice

  • Paris

Lawyer Rankings

France > Employment

Employment specialist Ogletree Deakins represents some of the country’s leading institutions and public bodies and is a key port of call for high-stakes employment matters. Jean-Marc Albiol has longstanding experience in sensitive litigation and strategic reorganisation cases. Cécile Martin is the go-to expert for the social management of operations and discrimination and harassment cases. Nicolas Peixoto, Stéphane Bloch, Karin Dulac and Alexandre Abitbol are other key names to note.