In a highly expected decision, the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation) has ended the debates surrounding the boundary’s porosity between sports agents’ activity and that of sports lawyers. The Supreme Court confirmed the annulment of the modification by the Paris Bar Association of its internal regulations, which authorized sports agent-lawyers to carry out the activity of putting in contact, for a fee, the parties interested in the conclusion of a contract relating to the remunerated exercise of a sports or training activity. According to the Supreme Court, “lawyers cannot, either as a principal or as an accessory, exercise the activity of sports agents.”
Context and Procedural Facts
As a reminder, sports agent-lawyers were incorporated following Law no. 2011-331 of 28 March 2011 on the modernization of the regulated judicial and legal professions, amending Law no. 71-1130 of 31 December 1971. Under the terms...
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