Pascale Norris is a senior attorney at Urban Thier & Federer and heads the firm’s Paris office. She is a member of the New York and Paris bars and practices primarily in the areas of business law, dispute resolution, and contract law in France.

Pascale Norris is a Senior Attorney at Urban Thier & Federer, Attorneys at Law, and manages the firm's Paris, France office. She is admitted to practice law in both New York and Paris, and focuses on commercial litigation, dispute resolution, and contract law in France.

Your client base consists primarily of French and international companies. Ms. Norris is trilingual, speaking French, English, and German.

She has over 25 years of professional experience and specializes in representing companies before French civil and commercial courts in matters including product liability, contract and tort law, personal injury, construction and competition disputes, distribution matters, and other commercial disputes. These often involve cross-border proceedings with complex issues of applicable law, international jurisdiction, and insurance.

In addition, Ms. Norris negotiates and drafts a wide range of French law contracts for her clients, including manufacturing, purchase, sale, supply, distribution, commercial agency, and license agreements, and advises on corporate governance matters for French companies.

Ms. Norris earned her law degrees from King's College London and the Sorbonne in Paris, and was subsequently admitted to the bar in Paris and New York.