Victor Trouttet

Victor practices primarily criminal law and provides assistance both at the prosecution stage and upstream through advices aimed at preventing criminal risks.

He assists a clientele comprising corporate officers and business leaders, elected officials and private individuals and represent them before French criminal courts, whether they are perpetrators or victims of criminal offenses.

Selected Operation Summary

Assisted and defended indictees and civil parties before criminal and correctional courts and drafted the related documentation

Defended elected officials before criminal courts for offenses allegedly committed during their term of office

Defended individuals and business owners accused of white-collar crimes

Assisted and advised corporate officers in the management and prevention of criminal risks, in particular through the implementation of delegation of authorities within their organization

Defended business owners in criminal employment law cases

Drafted criminal complaints and prepared so-called CIVI files (i.e., applications to the Commission d’indemnisation des victimes d’infractions pénales – Commission of compensation for victims of criminal offenses)

Background

• Soulier Avocats, Criminal Law Department, March 2021-September 2021 (internship)
• Cattin & Associés, Legal Department, September 2020-February 2021 (internship)
• SCP Dumoulin Avocats, March 2020-August 2020 (internship)
• François Saint Pierre Avocats, February 2020 (internship)

Extra-professional Experience

• Finalist in the National Human Rights Competition for trainee lawyers, 2021
• Winner of the Moot Court Competition of the Rhône Alpes Law School, 2020
• Founder and Honorary President of the Legal Clinic of the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, 2018-2020
• Vice-President of the Lyon Criminal Law Association, 2018-2019

Education

• Postgraduate Degree in Fundamental Criminal Law, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, 2019
• Master’s Degree in Private and Judicial Law, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, 2018
• University Diploma in American Law, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, 2017

Languages

• French
• English
• Senegalese (Wolof)