The lawyer ofcrises and disasters“And figure of the judicial world Daniel Soulez Larivière died Friday at the age of 80, we learned from the Paris Bar Association.
“He had an accidental fall. This is brutal news. He was a very great lawyer and it is a great loss for the bar and the profession.“, declared to AFP Me Loïc Dusseau, friend and former collaborator of Me Soulez Larivière.
An influential lawyer, Daniel Soulez Larivière specialized in international crisis cases such as the Rainbow Warrior affair, the Furiani stadium accident, the Erika oil spill and the Concorde crash.
He had also defended Total during the trial for the explosion of the AZF chemical plant in Toulouse.
A former member of the Conseil de l’Ordre, he had published several reference essays on the legal profession and the judicial world, including “the lawyer“.
“Huge lawyer, cantor of the rights of the defense, his works will always remain references“, reacted on Twitter the Minister of Justice and former lawyer Éric Dupond-Moretti, saying to himself”deeply saddened“.
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Daniel Soulez Larivière had published in 2021 a column in the JDD to defend “Right wing stateand worry about the rise of nationalism and populism in France and Europe.