Valérie Dupong

Born in 1961, she is married and is a mother to 4 children.

After her legal studies at the law and social sciences faculty in Poitiers (France), in 1986 she obtained a master's degree in private law, specialising in ‘judicial service’.

In the summer of 1987 she took a course on English corporate law at the London Polytechnic.

In 1989 she carried out a theoretical and practical apprenticeship at the University of Edinburgh and at J+A. Hasties, Solicitors; Todd Murray, Solicitors and the lawyer William Nimmo-Smith, Q.C.

She was appointed to the Luxembourg bar in 1987and started work at Dupong & Konsbruck, before joining lawyer Charles Kaufhold's office.

In 1993 she was amongst the founding members of Dupong & Lecuit, currently Dupong, Krieps, Du Bois & Dias Videira.

In 1998 she started work as a lecturer at the ‘Institut d’études éducatives et sociales’ and she has continued to lecture at the University of Luxembourg since 2004.

She was the head of the ‘Conférence du Jeune Barreau’ from 1996 to 1997 and has been a member of the ORK (Ombudsmkomité fir d’Rechter vum Kand) since 2003.

She was a member of the ‘Conseil de l'ordre des avocats’ in 2006-2007.

She specialises in family law, inheritance law and youth law, she also deals with criminal law, civil law, private and commercial contracts, and the civil and criminal liability of physicians, as well as representing victims of crime in court.

Spoken and written languages: French, German, English, Luxembourgish.