Ogletree Deakins

Labor and Employment Law

Managing Partner

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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French, English

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)

DESS Droit du Travail et de la Santé, Université de Paris XI Admittance to Practice Paris