According to a new judgment LPP protects private communication between clients and lawyers, limiting requests for information in competition proceedings.
Key Points:
..Clients can now argue that their communications with external EEA-admitted lawyers that involve legal advice with respect to any subject matter should no longer be captured in requests for information from the EC targeting internal documents.
..The European Commission can no longer review (even in a cursory manner) the content of documents covered by LPP.
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