RIVKINE CONSEIL was founded by Jérome RIVKINE, a member of the Paris Bar with a doctorate in international relations.
A lawyer dedicated to human relations, he is involved in numerous organizations in the fields of health, sport, and individual and collective well-being.
Jérome Rivkine holds a post-graduate diploma (DEA) in International Economic and Development Law from the University of Paris V in 1999, a post-graduate diploma of attorney-at-law from Paris Bar School in 2002 and a doctorate in International Relations (PhD thesis) from the University of Paris V in 2005.
He has worked as a lawyer since 2001 in major law firms both in Japan and France, such as LMT Avocats and Ernst & Young.
His early work focused primarily on corporate law, commercial law, financial law, and international transactions.
In 2011, he founded RIVKINE AVOCATS, a “boutique law firm” specialized in general business law, dedicated to assist individuals and companies in their day-to-day affairs. He also teaches at a number of universities.
Affected by a cancer in 2013, he set aside his law practice to focus on the healthcare sector. He develops an in-depth reflection on the place of the patient, the experience of care, resilience, adapted physical activity and self-reconstruction.
In 2016, he publishes a book (Les cinq saisons, L’Harmattan).
In this autobiographical work, he recounts his experience as a cancer patient and offers reflections on vulnerability, identity, resilience, and the meaning found in adversity.
He contributes articles to specialized journals and regularly speaks at universities, associations, health organizations, and public institutions.
In 2018, he becomes a member of the board of directors at CAMI Sport & Cancer.
In 2019 he is appointed as a patient-expert for the Fondation de France and he joins the Sport Health Insertion Committee.
In 2020, he cocreates the Association des Patients en Onco-Pneumologie de l’Hôpital Foch (APOP Foch), a patient organization located into the Hôpital Foch, committed to bring patient support and advocacy.
In 2022, he is graduated at the Université des Patients-Sorbonne of a university degree (DU) in Health Democracy; he is trained in Patient Therapeutic Education (PTE) at the same University.
In 2023, he joins the team of the Université Sorbonne Paris-Nord to teach “the patient perspective” at the General Medecine Department and raise awareness among general medical students on topics such as patient rights, the healthcare relationship and the co-construction of medical decisions.
In 2024, he was appointed a member of the Board of Directors of the Union Nationale Sportive Léo Lagrange and the Union Régionale Ile-de-France Léo Lagrange, a multi-sport and affinity sports federation grouping 400 associations, whose aim is to provide education and integration through sport, so as to promote access to citizenship and health through sport.
Discrimination Based on Disability: Perspectives on the Obligation to Adapt Workplaces 20 Years After the Law of February 11, 2005 (Lexbase, 2025)
Burnout, a Major Illness with Poorly Defined Boundaries: Legal Overview and Practical Tools (Lexbase, 2024)
For Person-Centered Care: Let’s Integrate Patient-Teachers into Medicine (Le Monde Opinion Piece, 2023)
Playing a Sport to Overcome Cancer (CAMI Review, 2017)
Cancer Allowed Me to Become Who I Truly Am (Vivre, 2017)
Know Thyself (International Journal of Medicine, 2017)
A Healthy Patient Thanks to Physical Activity (League Against Cancer, 2016)
The (Non-)Constituent Elements of the Offense of Market Manipulation (Lexbase, 2013)
Acknowledgments of Debt: Failure to Deliver Funds (Lexbase, 2012)
Hardship Clauses: Prepare for the Unforeseen! (Lexbase, 2011)
Franchising: Guidelines for a Rigorous Regime (Lexbase, 2011)
The Simplified Joint-Stock Company (SAS)… Ten Years Later: An Increasingly Attractive Status (Option Finance, 2004)
Taxation of E-commerce Transactions (French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan, 2001)
Special Offers: Limits Not to Exceed (France Japon Éco, 2001)
Basic Introduction to the 35-Hour Workweek (French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan, 2001)
Training on integrating patient experience into practice – Schiller Advisory (2026)
Symposium on partnership in healthcare – Grand Orient de France (2024)
Symposium on patient engagement in healthcare training – Sorbonne Paris Nord University (2023)
Democracy in healthcare tested by the health crisis – Espace Éthique Île-de-France (2022)
Care pathway in oncology and pulmonology at Foch Hospital – Sandoz Podcast (2022)
The practice of adapted physical activity – AFSOS (2019)
National Academy of Medicine, Working Group on the Patient Partner (2023)
Jérôme Rivkine: A Combative Volunteer (Fondation de France, 2023)
Can a Doctor Be Too Empathetic with Their Patient? (Dr. Marine Crest’s Podcast, 2021)
Cancer: Joyful Fighters! (Dr. Dominique Rueff, 2019)
Clermont: The Author Who Overcame Cancer at a Book Signing (Le Parisien, 2016)
Sport, a Medicine Against Cancer (Le Monde, Pascale Santi, 2016)
In the summer of 2024, Jérome Rivkine has been selected by the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Organizing Committee as a torch relay runner.
This distinction recognizes his long-standing commitment to health-related sport, adapted physical activity, and supporting people affected by illness.
Through this role, he conveys values of hope and resilience for those living with illness and the benefits of health-related sport.
