Marie-Adélaïde De Montlivault-Jacquot

1. Professional activity

- Attorney-at-law, Member of the Paris Bar (2006);

- Head of the IT Litigation Department of the Alain Bensoussan Avocats Lexing law firm.

2. Practice areas

Advisory and litigation services in:

- IT and new technologies law;

- Court-ordered expertise in IT law;

- Commercial litigation;

- Unfair competition.

Management and follow up of IT projects in pre-ligation phase:

- Formal notices and cease and desist letters;

- Notice of claims;

- Assessment letters;

- Amendments;

- Legal steering committees;

- Technical follow up of projects;

- Contract management;

- Negotiation and drafting of settlement agreements.

IT expertise:

- request for appointment of an expert;

- Follow up of judicial expertise (technical meetings, memoranda and submissions);

- Testing protocols;

- Testing meetings.

Intellectual property law:

- Infringement seizures;

- Petitions;

- Requests for withdrawal of court orders;

- Procedural management of preparatory inquiries (withdrawal of sequesters, expertise, reports and findings…).

3. Experience

- Advisory and litigation in IT and new technologies law;

- IT project management in pre-litigation phase;

- IT expertise.

4. Publications

4.1 Books Co-author of:

- “Informatique, Télécoms, Internet”, Editions Francis Lefebvre, 6th edition, 2017.

4.2 Articles

- La rupture brutale de pourparlers : la justification par un motif légitime, La Gazette du droit des technologies avancées, juillet 2010 ;

- Regular contributor to the “JTIT” newsletter of the Alain Bensoussan law firm.

5. Education

- Certificat d’aptitude à la profession d’avocat (Bar exam) (2005) / Dissertation on the reform of bankruptcy proceedings (« La réforme des procédures collective »);

- DEA (Master 2) in civil and commercial agreements, Université de Versailles, under the supervision of Professor Grégoire Loiseau (2004) / Dissertation on the liability of land and air carriers (« La responsabilité du transporteur terrestre et aérien »);

- Maîtrise (Master 1) in private law, Université Paris II – Assas Panthéon (2003).

6. Additional activities

- Teaches a course on IT law at University of Technology of Troyes (Master STIC), focused on the topics “Information systems law” and “How to secure IT agreements” (since 2010);

- Teached a course on IT law at University of Technology of Compiègne (Master), focused on the topic “IS law” (2012);

- Teaches a course on IT agreements at Paris V René Descartes University;

- Participated in the symposium of Afdit (Association Française de Droit de l’Informatique et de la télécommunication) dedicated to IT contract management (« Contrats informatiques : les clés des nouveaux modèles : Maîtrise d’œuvre des projets, les clouds, l’Agile, les SMACS »).