Jorn Kebbeh inherited that has been in my family for 6+ generations serving some of the best kebbe nayye and kebbe zghertewiye.

Presumably it would be called Ibrahim in Lebanon, not Abraham. I can see there is a fairly large Greek Orthodox Ibrahim family in Bazbina.

The only Jabbours I can find on the electoral rolls in Bazbina are three women, all of whom are presumably married to men from Bazbina. There is however a big Maronite Jabbour Family in Qobeiyat, one of the largest towns in Akar, not too far away from Bazbina. Actually, the current maronite MP from Akar is a Jabbour.

It looks like there is also a smaller Maronite Jabbour family in Tripoli as well.

The west is not homogeneous on this issue, in France for example it is very much the norm to include a picture. I personally avoid it though.

Again, you saying “you must not know how lawyers are in Lebanon” tells me exactly the type of client you would be.

I gave you several chances to provide context, you didn’t. I have nearly 10 years of experience dealing with clients and their ludicrous expectations as to fees. The premise of your post itself, using the term “bogus prices”, clearly shows that you, like many clients, don’t understand the value of a lawyer’s time, work and experience.

I pity the lawyer who accepts you as a client, he’ll have to be pretty desperate.

Again, that doesn’t say much. What is a “small case”. A case with a small value can take much more work than another one with a greater value. In my experience, clients like you severely underestimate the complexity of their cases and fail to appreciate the effort that a lawyer has to put in.

And what are "logical fees" according to you?

"Bogus prices", if you are only willing to pay crap fees, you will only get crap lawyers.

I echo this, as someone who has lived abroad for 10 years now and in three different continents

Hourly rates at the good local law firms usually range from 1,400-4,000 Aed an hour depending on the lawyer’s seniority. Some of them might accept a fixed rate for a defined instruction

That’s not much to go on I’m afraid given that Jabbours exist in a few different places and your relatives have been gone for too long to appear on any publicly available records.

I know or Jabbours in Koura who are Maronite, and Jabbours from safita in Syria who are Greek orthodox.

Nothing less than 40k a month if you hope to leave aside any savings and send your kid to a decent school

Antoura

Thank you, as a lawyer, it is frankly insane the number of posts I see on here seeking complex legal advice and the number of completely incorrect responses those posts receive.

If it's something pretty simple which everyone deals with at one point or another, like rental notices for example, then perhaps the collective experiences of this group can be useful.

But anything more complex? Please do not rely on the answers given here.

Another thing to understand is that law, like medicine, is full of specialisms. You wouldn't go to your proctologist for an ear infection and you wouldn't ask your GP to perform brain surgery. I myself am an experienced lawyer, but if you asked me about your employment issues or real estate issues, my answer will only be marginally more informed than the answer of the general public, because these are not my areas of expertise.

Because it’s French as in French citizens, not French speakers

If the standard is only being able to hold a conversation, the percentage in Lebanon is at least double that. The majority of schools here teach primarily in French (including subjects such as sciences, math, economy, philosophy etc...). A lot of people lose their fluency later on because the trend is reversed at uni where most unis are English-speaking + most business tends to occur in English.

When I (Lebanese) was studying at a uni in the U.S., the uni had set-up this "French-speaking group" for American students learning French to be able to speak with people who were fluent. The American students strongly preferred speaking with me and my Cameroonian friend over the French students because we enunciated words better which made it easier for them to learn, and we also generally had a better grasp of the rules of grammar.

I went to the largest and oldest catholic school in Lebanon, we absolutely did learn evolution and not just once, but in multiple years.

Agreed, I even went to a catholic school and they taught us evolution in more detail every year. What a complete BS map.

His popularity definitely took a hit at one point, but it recovered after that. There’s obviously no way to tell for sure, but I think he would have handily won the 2002 run-off even if he faced Lionel Jospin.

The thing about Chirac is that he had a certain charm which made people forgive some of his transgressions.

He only got convicted after his presidency, but despite that he remains a very very popular figure, he could have probably gotten a third term if it wasn’t for sarkozy’s shenanigans

Chirac, DeGaulle and Pompidou were all popular. Mitterand and Sarkozy were both quite popular but divisive. Giscard was respected but I wouldn't call him popular. Hollande was utter crap.