Companies may recover from their employees the cost of internal investigations conducted by external law firms, according to a decision by the German Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht). However, the court has set out...more
The much publicised raid of U.S. law firm Jones Day’s Munich office and the seizure of documents relating to VW’s internal investigation by prosecutors in an investigation of Audi AG were legal, according to German courts. A...more
The concept of legal privilege between a lawyer and his client is not recognised in the same way under German law as it is in common law jurisdictions.
In particular, the jurisprudence of the German courts has until now...more