She is a barrister at the Paris and Québec Bars, a former President of the Paris Bar and is currently President of the National Bar Council until December 2020.
For more than 30 years, she has practised in the fields of computer law and new technologies. Her legal firm FERAL-SCHUHL/SAINTE MARIE, co-founded with Bruno Grégoire Sainte Marie in 1988, has been a leading firm for many years.
Alongside the French Member of Parliament Christian Paul, she co-chaired a Parliamentary committee on “rights and freedoms in the digital age”; this committee submitted its report entitled “Digital rights and freedoms: a new democratic age” to the President of the French National Assembly, Claude Bartolone, on 8 October 2015.
She practises as an accredited mediator for the Paris Centre for Mediation and Arbitration. She is also on the registered list of mediators of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and is on the Québec Bar’s list of mediators in civil, commercial and employment matters. She is also listed in the directory of the National Mediation Board of Lawyers of the National Bar Council. She practises conventional and judicial mediation, both nationally and internationally.
She has served as a member of the French High Council for Gender Equality (HCEfh) as a qualified expert (2013-2015).
She has written Cyberdroit : le droit à l'épreuve de l'Internet (Dalloz Praxis, 7th edition 2018-2019) as well as numerous other publications on her areas of expertise.
