Just before lawmakers retreated for their summer break in July, the French Senate passed a bill that grants legal professional privilege to written advice given by in-house counsel.

Although the legal shield will only cover advice related to commercial, civil and administrative legal matters and the bill still needs to be approved by the other chamber of the French parliament, the Assemblée Nationale, the move was hailed as a game-changer by local lawyers.

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