Vauclin Ferrandi Avocats

Vauclin Ferrandi Avocats is a Paris business law firm whose technology and data practice has, since 2024, absorbed most of the firm's AI Act work. The clients are banks, payment institutions, insurers and the software vendors that sell to them, which shapes what the lawyers spend their time on: credit scoring and pricing models, fraud detection, claims triage, and the contractual chain between a general-purpose model provider and the deployer who ends up liable. The practice drafts AI use policies, supplier clauses and internal governance charters, advises on the overlap between GDPR data protection impact assessments and AI Act fundamental rights impact assessments, and reviews conformity documentation before it goes to a market surveillance authority or notified body. Most clients are on a monthly retainer with a defined hour block; discrete questions, such as classifying a single system, are handled as fixed-fee projects. Gap analyses are priced after an intake call and the firm does not publish that figure. Just over sixty lawyers work across the Paris office and a smaller Lyon team. Vauclin Ferrandi does not offer technical testing, bias measurement or ISO certification and works alongside engineering consultancies when those are needed.