Legal Insights

In the last several years, it has been difficult for companies to comply with their redeployment obligations, specifically in the international context. These obligations should have therefore been clarified and detailed by law. The legislators chose instead to partially address the issue, and with a sense of urgency, with the Law no. 2010-499 of May […]

The Commercial Chamber of the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) ruled on several occasions that a claim for termination of an established business relationship[1] is a tort action, regardless of whether the business relationship was based on a series of contracts[2], on a single contract that has been terminated[3], or whether the termination resulted […]

The Law no. 2007-776 of August 4, 2008 on the Modernization of the Economy (called the “LME Law”) created the Autorité de la concurrence or the French Competition Authority (the “FCA”)

Following the first year of operation of the Autorité de la Concurrence (French Competition Authority, hereinafter the “FCA”), it is time to make an assessment and try to indentify the major trends of the decisions it rendered in 2009.

With the development of information and communication technologies, a growing number of employees are telecommuting for all or part of their work. Additionally, companies have often been required to reduce the surface area of their premises and request their employee to work, in part, from their homes. As a result, working conditions have evolved. The […]

The European REACH Regulation[1] (originally made up of more than 850 pages!) dated December 18, 2006 entered into force on June 1, 2007. Pursuant to this Regulation, chemical substances as such, used in the preparation of a mixture, or contained in an article in quantities of 1 tonne or above per year must now be […]