INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRM
MADKOUR Law Firm offers advice and assistance of the highest ethical and professional
standards.
Since its formation, MADKOUR Law Firm has developed into one of Beirut’s largest
and most respected law offices, serving numerous high profile individuals and companies
and has already achieved a prominent position in the Law Business.
Contributing to its growing success is the fact that MADKOUR Law Firm gathers a
team of specialized lawyers as well as renowned judges and represents more than
a thousand clients all around the world and collaborates with firms all over the
countries.
Lawyers proceed as a team, in consideration of their specialization and their complementarity
in order to provide fast and efficacious services to our clients.
Our Firm’s culture is that of an enterprise of services production, taking actions
adapted to Lebanese and foreign client’s demands.
We are committed to responding to the needs of our clients, building on a conviction
that expedience and practical usefulness are just as important in giving good deal
as a comprehensive legal analysis. We always provide our services with our clients’
specific, practical needs in mind.
We place great emphasis on not merely identifying legal problems, but also presenting
proposals for solving them. We attempt to ensure that our services bring added value
to our clients and are not just a necessary expense.
Our approach is based on specialization according to activity branch for a perfect
knowledge of our client profession, as well as to law branch for an expertise in
traditional matters of law.
Conscious of the growing internalization of affairs, MADKOUR Law firm has developed
a wide international network covering France, Belgium, Great Britain, Geneva, Dubai
and other countries throughout the world, which leads to find for every single file
the most appropriate firm to handle the case.
Our firm has also adapted to the considerable evolution in the profession of law
as well as to the growing internationalization of counseling activity, by providing
its services and sharing its experience with its Clients operating in foreign countries
as well as assisting international clients on their Lebanese or international transactions.
MADKOUR Law firm provides a wide range of legal services on both local and international
levels and has a very well established reputation in penal cases as well as in other
fields. It was selected to represent the most complicated cases in three main areas:
Private Commercial Sector: corporations with activity devoted to coffee, televisions,
telecommunications, pharmaceutical, banking and financing, commerce, among others.
Private Sector Non Commercial: associations, foundations and non-governmental Organizations
in general, devoted to technical assistance, among others.
Public Sector: Foreign Embassies, and Governmental Organizations.
The Firm also specializes in banking law and bankruptcy. It was selected to represent
important companies in negotiating with major banks and reached good settlements.
Its lawyers and consultants are renowned in their fields to provide legal services
as well as mediation involving commercial and financial disputes.
MADKOUR Law firm deals with financial, commercial and labor litigation advising
major local and International companies, it is also selected to establish all kinds
of Companies (Offshore, Joint Stock, limited, holding, joint liability) and act
as their permanent legal adviser.
Arabic, English and French, written and spoken are the languages perfectly used
and translated in our work.
At Madkour Law Firm,
we understand your industry, goals and needs.
Our innovative solutions & Our perspective are based on our knowledge of local laws and customs everywhere we operate, while our expert lawyers understand issues across a broad spectrum of business and legal practices. This fluency allows us to gather the right talent, know-how and knowledge
to deliver High Quality Services.
HONORARIES
Honoraries are mutually agreed upon with our Clients according to reglementations
related to the matter, especially those edited by the Bar association of Beirut.
MADKOUR Law firm structures fee arrangements which are responsive to the client’s
needs and circumstances. Generally it is the policy of the firm to discuss fees
with clients at the initial contact. We welcome an open discussion of legal fees
and their payment.
Provided time & work, difficulty, importance and urgency of the case are taken into
consideration to fix our honoraries. Our firm has implemented an intervention time
follow up system, which assures a great deal of transparence in the honoraries.
Generally, an honorary convention is concluded prior to our interventions and judicial
expenses are deduced according to their effective use and are communicated to our
Clients at the end of each month.
It is to note that all information revealed to our firm remains strictly confidential
in conformity of our deontological rules.
We thank for your interest in our company and we aim for an excellent long-term
cooperation, remaining at your disposal for further information.
ACTIVITIES
1.
Having an extensive experience and focus on criminal litigation, and fully aware
of the major obstacles and problems faced while defending multiple cases due to
the lack of development and amendments of many legislations regarding the Penal
Law and the Penal Procedures,
MADKOUR LAW FIRM has felt the urgent
need to have a leading role in the Penal Field while contributing into initiating,
encouraging and urging the introduction of new systems and regulations.
On 06/09/2006, a group of young lawyers cooperating in
Madkour Law Firm
have decided to constitute
THE LEBANESE PENAL LAW ASSOCIATION under
the supervision of President Michel Madkour, an honorable judge who occupied many
positions in various courts, mainly criminal, for 40 years.
Our Team, together with the concerned authorities and organizations, Lebanese and
foreign, will be working with enthusiasm to achieve our goals.
While our country is going through a rough time, we lifted the Challenge and we
believed in our capacity to make our Legal System a better one and our Justice a
more human and effective one.
To learn more about the association and its goals, we invite you to visit our website:
http://www.Penal-lb.org
2.
MADKOUR LAW FIRM has been appointed as the representative of The International Prison
Watch Association in Lebanon.
The object of International Prison Watch is to promote respect for persons who have
been imprisoned in agreement with the provisions of the international human rights
related instruments, by:
- Striving irrespective of political considerations, to ensure that ordinary criminal
prisoners should be subjected to no punishment other than being deprived of freedom,
for whatever reason the individual concerned has been imprisoned.
- Emphasizing the social reintegration dimension that should be combined with any
freedom – depriving sentence.
- Promoting all alternative punishment to prison.
- Opposing by all appropriate means the imposition and execution of the death penalty
as well as torture and the above mentioned types of treatment for whatever reason
the individual concerned has been imprisoned.