The move brings France closer to Europe, Canada, and other major economies where in-house legal advice already enjoys some ...

Recent polling at the 2025 ICC New York Conference on International Arbitration showed that, while practitioners’ views are ...

Yesterday in a landmark decision, Jardine Strategic Limited v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd and others, the Privy Council, on appeal from Bermuda’s Court of Appeal, has changed the law. “The ...

In the context of third-party liability claims, a familiar arrangement arises when an insurer retains defense counsel for its insured: the ...

Since the elimination of general federal common law in 1938,1 federal courts have sought to avoid the specter of “two conflicting systems of law controlling the primary activity of citizens.”2 But ...

The policy behind the attorney-client privilege is to promote candid and open communication by clients to their attorneys without fear of disclosure. The attorney-client privilege only applies if the ...

A frequent topic in the media these days is the attorney-client privilege. This is probably a consequence of the volume of high-profile legal controversies now making headlines and the comings and ...

Consulting an AI chatbot for legal matters can see your chat history used against you by opposition lawyers… and potentially ...

The High Court of South Africa, exercising its admiralty jurisdiction, has recently delivered a judgment ordering the ...