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Compliance has become a major challenge for all corporate functions and an essential element to secure business activities.

The stakes are high… and the financial, legal and reputational risks, often underestimated, are real.

In this context, the European American Chamber of Commerce Auvergne Rhone-Alps (EACC) has decided to create, in partnership with Soulier Avocats, a new Compliance Task Force dedicated to compliance.

Emmanuel Pierrat, member of the Paris Bar, prolific author, has published in fall 2022 an erudite book showing through the centuries the role, sometimes revolutionary sometimes reformist, of very talented lawyers, often embracing at the end a political career at the highest level.

In 336 pages published by Albin Michel, Emmanuel Pierrat showcases the most famous lawyers, their fevers, their harangues, and the societal and cultural changes that their voice has prompted in our “modern” societies.

This is the case of our founding partner, André Soulier, Dean of the Lyon Bar, to whom Emmanuel Pierrat devotes six pages (pages 269-275) of his book, under the significant title “When the lawyer precedes the law” which praises a legislative reform that followed one of the acquittals he has obtained in his career.

As part of the WLG | at large ’22 event which will take place in December, the World Law Group, a network of 60 leading independent law firms with more than 400 offices in major commercial and financial centers worldwide, of which our Firm is a member, is organizing a series of webinars. Two of them are open to everyone.

With respect to dismissals on disciplinary grounds, the one-month period for notifying an employee of his/her dismissal is counted from date to date. The setting by the employer of a date for a new pre-dismissal interview, due to the non-attendance of the employee at the initial interview, does not interrupt the one-month period.

Soulier Avocats is pleased to announce that Claire Filliatre and Marion Fleuret have joined the Firm as Counsels.

Claire Filliatre focuses her practice primarily on business law and contract law, both as advisor and litigator, as well as on white collar crime and press offences.

Marion Fleuret’s practice focuses on law of persons, in particular patrimonial law and inheritance law, both as advisor and litigator, as well as on criminal law.

Over the years, risk management has become a major issue for companies. For decades, they have been faced with an increased criminalization of their activities and an explosion of new and increasingly complex regulations in a wide variety of fields such as the protection of personal data and respect for the environment.

This regulatory hell is paved with good intentions. The rule of law must guarantee a free competition environment where the dices are not loaded and where corruption has no place.