Client Alert

| October 2, 2007

The European Court of First Instance Judgment in the Akzo Nobel Case: a Notable Decision on Legal Privilege for In-House Counsel in Europe

A recent decision of the European Court of First Instance (the “CFI”) has excited interest in light of its significance in the debate over whether European rules of legal professional privilege (“LPP”) should be extended to communications between the executives and in-house counsel of a company which is the subject of a Commission investigation.

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