DS Avocats

Pro Bono

Every year since 2013, DS Avocats has been welcoming 12 students from two secondary schools in the Paris region classified as priority education zones: Edouard Vaillant (Gennevilliers 92) and Camille Claudel (Paris 13).

We support these students throughout the school year, which is marked by two important steps :

• step 1: an internship to observe the professional world at the firm in the fall
• step 2: an eloquence contest at the end of May.

Process :

• The Pro Bono Mission selects the topics proposed by the members of the firm.
• Motivation letters from the student candidates: 6 students from each college are admitted to the internship.
• At the firm, each student is supervised by a referent (associate) and mentored by an associate.
• Choice and preparation of the subjects for the competition, supervised by the teachers, the referents, and the mentors.
• Rehearsals are conducted at the firm.
• The Ordre des Avocats Library hosts the eloquence contest: each student has 10 minutes to convince.
• A jury composed of personalities from the legal world and, since two sessions, from the civil world (Marie Tabarly, Bruno Raffaëli...) selects the winners of the contest. Unless he is unavailable, Bertrand Perrier gives the counter-speech.
• All participating students are rewarded and a cocktail party closes the event.