A recent ruling from the French supreme court has brought some clarification of the fate of a non-compete clause of an employee transferred to another company in the same group.

The decision raised many an eyebrow to the extent that French law provides for exactly the opposite rule.

Paris counsel Pierre Storrer authored an article titled "Missed Opportunity Between the ECJ and the Payment Account" ...

A Paris division of the Unified Patent Court granted a moderate €100,000 top-up to security for legal costs in a patent infringement case, balancing the defendant's increased defense expenses against the claimant's fundamental right to access justice. The court rejected demands for a much larger security increase, finding that the claimant's status as a micro-enterprise required careful consideration of proportionality principles under EU law.

This decision overturns a 2009 decision, in which an appellate court decided that personal data processing that enables the employer to monitor employee email did not disqualify the evidence.

On 19 November, the CNIL released an article in order to provide companies impacted by the recent CJEU ruling on invalidation of Safe Harbor with guidance on the next steps.

Dans un arrêt du 14 septembre 2022 (RG No. 21-18.068), la Cour d'appel de Paris a statué à nouveau sur la similarité des vêtements avec les parfums et cosmétiques.

HSF Senior Associate Vincent Bouvard has authored an article for LexisPSL on the recent decision of the International Chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal...

The French court ruled that Belokon's acquisition and operation of Manas Bank in Kyrgyzstan in 2007 hid money-laundering practices and consequently set aside the arbitral award.

On March 17, 2015, a new bill proposal was issued, advocating the creation of a class action procedure for the health sector.

Ozan Akyurek and Cyril Philibert,analyze the conditions and modalities of application of confidentiality and legal privilege under French law ...

On September 24, 2024, the Criminal Division of the Cour de Cassation ("Court of Cassation") issued a noteworthy ruling on the enforceability of attorney-client privilege in the event...

Deadlines postponement principle: if the statutory deadline expires between March 12th and June 25th, the deadline starts to run again from the latter date for its initial duration not exceeding two months.

On 17 June 2025, the Paris Court of Appeal issued its first ruling under France's Duty of Vigilance Law, marking a significant moment for corporate accountability.

The judgment of the French Supreme Court dated 3 September 2019 gives the opportunity to review the evidence required to legally characterize the offence of moral harassment.

Further to our earlier post on the French seizure of the "shadow fleet" tanker "Boracay" off western France in September 2025, it is now being reported that the trial of the captain is due to commence on Monday.

France's data protection regulator – the Commission Nationale de L'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) – ordered Alphabet Inc.'s Google in 2015 to comply with the right to be forgotten.

On January 31, 2024, the French Supreme Court dismissed the French Patent Office's appeal of the Paris Court of Appeals decision ordering the office to grant Dana-Farber Cancer...

Litigation is under pressure, and mediation is fashionable.

Our partner Thierry Dal Farra was interviewed by LexisNexis France on the subject of the financial responsibility of public managers, in the light of three years of litigation practice...