Rodolphe Rous

For clients trained in, or accustomed to, common law systems, legal fees are often perceived as a matter of market practice rather than legal architecture. Hourly rates, contingency fees, conditional fee arrangements or blended billing structures are generally understood as commercial tools, shaped primarily by competition, reputation and judicial oversight ex post. When such clients first engage a French lawyer, they are frequently surprised to discover that the determination of legal fees in F

Instagram is not merely an “app” you use; in EU legal terms it is an online platform (and, in the EU, it has been designated a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the Digital Services Act).

Foreign clients (and sometimes foreign lawyers) often translate avocat as “lawyer” and move on. That translation is not wrong, but it is incomplete. In France, the avocat is a regulated profession with a distinct legal architecture: a protected professional title, a bar-based governance system, strict ethical duties (especially independence and confidentiality), a specific relationship to the courts, and a set of reserved activities that shape day-to-day practice. At the same time, French law ma