The Georgia Department of Driver Services is being sued by an Atlanta man who was denied a personalised licence plate as it made reference to his sexual orientation. | 13yrs
Practice areas
A man injured by a flying hot dog thrown by a mascot at a 2009 baseball game will be allowed to take another swing at legal action, a state appeal court recently ruled. | 13yrs
The Council of Europe is considering a request from the US to join the Venice Commission, the Council of Europe's advisory body on legal and constitutional reform. | 13yrs
The UK legal sector is facing an 'unprecedented change' as major reforms to legislation take their toll on once lucrative markets, a leading financial advisory firm yesterday claimed. | 13yrs
Partner hiring by US law firms in London climbed to record levels last year as the collapse of New York's Dewey & LeBoeuf continued to drive recruitment, according to Legal Week magazine. | 13yrs
The legal sector will never return to the good times experienced before the recession and must react to changes in the marketplace to survive in the future, a report warned this week. | 13yrs
US law firm retirement schemes are to go back under the microscope following the release of an updated ranking of the top-25 plans this week, less than a year after researchers reported on the crippling burden pensions were causing younger partners. | 13yrs
Europe's latest anti-money laundering proposals -- unveiled yesterday -- could have been more ambitious, complained leading independent corruption busting campaigners. | 13yrs
A prominent white shoe law firm has bailed out of trust and estate work, casting doubt over the practice area's future at large US law firms. | 13yrs
Accountants have taken a knock in Britain's top court over confidential tax advice, but lawyers shouldn't relax as bean-counter leaders are gearing up to lobby for profound change | 13yrs
Long-serving Barclays' group general counsel Mark Harding is to retire from the bank at the same time as finance chief Chris Lucas, it was announced this week. | 13yrs
Legal fallout from the global financial crisis ratcheted up a notch today as US authorities indicated they are to launch the first action of its kind against a global credit rating agency over the sub-prime mortgage market. | 13yrs
State authorities in the US's fifth largest jurisdiction have given the go-ahead to local legislation boosting the amount medical negligence lawyers can slice from their clients' damages in contingency fees, triggering outrage from doctors. | 13yrs
A relatively unknown UK lawyer has shot to the top of the country's remuneration league table with a £10 million haul scheduled for this year | 13yrs
Australia's competition enforcer is taking US financial services giant Visa to court, claiming that the world's largest electronic payment network is abusing its power. | 13yrs
A European court has potentially fired the starting gun on landmark litigation over EU relations with Iran by ruling earlier this week that one of country's leading banks was unfairly caught in Brussels-dictated sanctions. | 13yrs
Two of North America's biggest brewers this week felt the wrath of Washington's monopoly busters as they attempt to cut a major deal. | 13yrs
The Tokyo government is to consider revising legislation governing the Bank of Japan in a bid to boost the country's struggling economy, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe revealed yesterday. | 13yrs
Swiss food company Nestlé has been found liable in a civil case over the infiltration of campaigning groups, seriously damaging links with activists the company had been desperate to forge. | 13yrs
A European court ruling last week boosted US Budweiser's fortunes in the continental lager market, but its Czech counterpart is unlikely to drop the global battle | 13yrs