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A Colombian brewery has landed itself in hot water after producing a beer under the 'Duff' brand - taking inspiration from the favoured drink of cartoon character Homer Simpson. | 14yrs

A host of US law firms is investigating Citizens Republic Bancorp's $912 million 'stock-for-sale' to Ohio's FirstMerit Corporation of America amid speculation of litigation ambulance chasing. | 14yrs

Italy's top corporations and limited liability companies are to be hit with a new fee to finance the country's competition authority, Rome announced recently. | 14yrs

Applicants to the New York State Bar will have to complete 50 hours of pro bono work to qualify for the local legal profession, after a senior judge unveiled the condition yesterday. | 14yrs

Diversity campaigners are to monitor the ethnic and gender composition of the US legal profession, in a move that follows a bid to prod bar leaders in the country to include the issue in guideline conduct rules. | 14yrs

An HIV/AIDS discrimination claim is set to be the first of its kind to be heard before the European Court of Human Rights, following campaigning by specialists at University College London. | 14yrs

Leaders of Singapore's legal profession are embroiled in a row with a lawyer who claims they have maliciously conspired against him, forcing an extraordinary meeting of the island state's law society in a bid to resolve the dispute. | 14yrs

Equity partners at the top US law firms have benefited from inflation-busting increases to their drawings over the last two years despite many corporate clients still struggling in the fallout of the worst financial crisis for more than a generation. | 14yrs

Law firms and lawyers across England and Wales have been named in an on-line public list of complaints published by the jurisdiction's Legal Ombudsman. | 14yrs

The British taxman is targeting lawyers suspected of evading payments in an ongoing bid to close the gaping hole in the national finances. | 14yrs

An Illinois judge has dealt a blow to a group of DePaul University College of Law graduates by dismissing their law suit against the school over misleading information about the job market. | 14yrs

A former lawyer who used to work for the firm of convicted Ponzi fraudster Scott Rothstein has been sentenced to three years in prison for his part in an illegal campaign contributions system. | 14yrs

A criminal complaint is set to be launched today by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge following an alleged invasion of privacy by an unnamed photographer who took pictures of the Duchess while she was topless. | 14yrs

City law firms are set for a showdown over the opportunity to earn a lucrative spot on the UK Financial Services Authority's first panel of external bank investigation experts. | 14yrs

Controversial Russian entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky is to drop a four-year dispute with the estate of his former business partner, less than a month after losing one of the largest civil law suits ever seen in UK courts. | 14yrs

Three global law firms have reported differing outcomes in their autumn retention rates as contrasting strategies come into force. | 14yrs

Irish property developer Paddy McKillen will be hit with a legal bill of up to €25.5 million (£20.45m) after his legal action against the Barclay brothers over the ownership of three London hotels failed. | 14yrs

More than half of US divorce lawyers claim that postnuptial agreements have risen in the last three years, according to a recent survey. | 14yrs

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has selected its first panel of external legal advisors with six law firms making the cut. | 14yrs