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Advocate Gazette quoted Valeria Ivacheva in a commentary titled "The Council of the Moscow City Bar explained the relationship between the lawyer and the debtor's trustee in bankruptcy"

In December, the Council of the Moscow City Bar stood up for attorney-client privilege, providing clarification on the relationship between the lawyer and the trustee in bankruptcy.
The Council emphasizes that failure to provide information at the request of the bankruptcy trustee is "self-protection". Lawyers do face a difficult choice - to violate the Law on Advocacy or to fail to comply with the requirements of bankruptcy trustees?

Valeria Ivacheva, an Advocate of ART DE LEX Dispute Resolution and International Arbitration practices, is certain that the clarification of the Council is aimed at distancing the lawyer from the clash of different interests, inevitable in a bankruptcy case.

The full version of the article is available in Advocate Gazette: https://www.advgazeta.ru/.../sovet-ap-g-moskvy.../