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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has rejected complaints that an anti-drunkeness ad from the Home Office, which shows a young man falling from scaffolding, might cause general offence or scare […]

Interpublic Group (IPG) and Sir Frank Lowe have settled their year-long legal wrangle in an out-of-court settlement, as predicted in Marketing Week (December 18, 2005). Both sides have agreed to […]

True story: A few weeks into the launch of the Altoids campaign an account guy runs into my office. He's breathless. 'People are cutting down the posters and taking them! [...]

Sir Frank Lowe's year-long legal wrangle with Interpublic Group is "days away" from being resolved. The battle of claims - which are being disputed in the US - may be […]

A British anti-spam group is locked in a US court battle defending the people's right to virtual privacy. Let's hope the spammers fry For all its undoubted benisons, the free […]

Allied Carpets has had a writ issued against it by sales promotion agency Gasoline over non-payment of bills for a planned World Cup promotion, which was scrapped earlier this year. [...]

The ongoing issue of the ad industry's lack of diversity made headlines again last week, but with a fresh twist. For the first time, 11 agencies signed binding agreements, punishable [...]

Last week, if you ran a Web search on Warren Kremer Paino, an advertising agency, you'd find among the top results a page entitled, 'Warren Kremer Paino Withdraws Lawsuit.' You [...]

Byline: JUDY GREENWALD SAN FRANCISCO-A California Supreme Court decision, which reaffirms companies' right to fire 'at will'' employees without providing a reason, is particularly welcome because it resolves conflicting state [...]

[london] The transfer of the $730 million global Reckitt Benckiser account from McCann Erickson to Euro RSCG Worldwide has created a bitter legal dispute in the U.K. Controversial new U.K. [...]

McCann's face-off with Euro over responsibility for staff should show how TUPE affects advertising. It was inevitable that a first TUPE case would arise in adland after the April expansion [...]

Euro RSCG's Reckitt win could lead to employment law test case for UK shops. Euro RSCG London and McCann Erickson are set to lock horns in the first high-profile confrontation [...]

The High Court has dismissed Marcos Benatti's application contesting the English courts' right to hear WPP Group's claim against him for breach of his consulting agreement and related claims. Copyright: […]

NEW YORK -- Former Deutsch Inc. executive Steve Dworin responded this week to a motion by executives at the Interpublic Group agency to dismiss his lawsuit against them. Dworin, who [...]

NEW YORK -- Attorneys for Interpublic Group and McCann Erickson have asked a New York court to dismiss a $30 million age discrimination lawsuit filed in May by former Universal [...]

NEW YORK -- Saatchi & Saatchi and Mike Burns, the former worldwide account director on the agency's General Mills business, have reached an out-of-court settlement in a lawsuit that Saatchi [...]

A federal jury has convicted two former advertising executives of stealing more than pounds 31 million from clients. Thomas Rubin, the former chairman and chief executive of the Santa Monica-based [...]

LOS ANGELES: Following the June 5 dismissal of a contractual fraud lawsuit filed by former contractor GMMB, Durazo Communications has officially shuttered its 15-year-old Hispanic PR operation. 'The agency had [...]

Two parades will be taking place during the annual Advertising Week festivities in September: a march of ad icons and a procession of Madison Avenue's leading executives to testify at [...]

National Savings & Investments has withdrawn claims about the performance of its guaranteed equity bond from its press advertising following IFA criticism. In a letter to Money Marketing, Aire Valley […]

NEW YORK -- A judge said Tuesday he would reserve his decision until a later date in a lawsuit brought by the former chief print buyer at Grey Global Group. [...]

Euro RSCG Worldwide is locked in a legal battle with one of its former executives over allegations of unfair business practice and misrepresentation. Charlie Tarzian, who was the chief executive [...]

Byline: LISA SANDERS Slander, breach of contract, engaging in unfair business practices and misrepresentation are some of the juicier allegations made in separate complaints filed in New York State Supreme [...]

Steve Dworin, a former president of Deutsch, is suing the agency and its president, Donny Deutsch, for dollars 56 million plus damages, alleging libel, slander and breach of contract. Dworin, [...]

The lawyer for the New York adware company sued earlier this week by the state's attorney general said late Thursday that the firm has done nothing illegal. "Our practices were […]

The New York State Attorney General's Office is suing Direct Revenue, claiming the company secretly installed millions of pop-up ad programs and sent ads through secretly installed spyware. The state's […]

When Delaney Lund Knox Warren & Partners entered a legal battle with rival Broadway (formerly part of Interpublic Group) over UK employment law two years ago, the row hardly made […]

NEW YORK -- In an unusual twist, WPP Group has requested that a London High Court overturn last week's ruling, in favor of the U.K. holding company, in its first [...]

NEW YORK -- In an unusual twist, WPP Group has requested that a London High Court overturn last week's ruling, in favor of the U.K. holding company, in its first [...]

NEW YORK -- Marco Benatti is disputing the validity of a March 9 ruling from the High Court in London that decided in favor of WPP Group in the first [...]

NEW YORK -- Ousted WPP Group Italy manager Marco Benatti today said he has extended an existing wrongful firing lawsuit to include holding company CEO Martin Sorrell. He also said [...]

NEW YORK -- Ousted WPP Group Italy manager Marco Benatti today said he has extended an existing wrongful firing lawsuit to include holding company CEO Martin Sorrell. He also said [...]

A French court has ruled that WPP must release documents relating to a row with Aegis Media over alleged client poaching by KR Media, the Paris-based agency in which WPP [...]

Former Mediaedge:cia chief hits back after revelations that he is involved in WPP's investigations into Marco Benatti. Mainardo de Nardis, a former WPP executive, has broken his silence over allegations [...]

Northern & Shell has said it is not planning to review its pounds 13 million media account, despite having lodged a claim against the incumbent MediaCom's WPP parent in the [...]

[Troy, Mich.] The ranks of BBDO Detroit could be thinned by up to 200 executives in a move that will see a number of roles relocated to the Omnicom Group […]

NEW YORK -- Marco Benatti, the WPP Group country manager in Italy who was fired Jan. 9, said he has filed a lawsuit in an Italian court against WPP Italy [...]

Interpublic Group and Sir Frank Lowe's new start-up Red Brick Road are thought to be close to a resolution to the fierce tussle over the #50m Tesco advertising business. Industry […]

The Federal Trade Commission has reached an agreement with seven corporations to settle charges for allegedly creating false and misleading advertising for Gero Vita International involving five health supplements sold [...]

NEW YORK -- Frank Lowe on Monday sounded off on Interpublic Group's claim that he used proprietary information to damage his former agency. Frank Lowe, in a statement, described the [...]

NEW YORK -- Interpublic Group has filed a complaint with the American Arbitration Association that accuses former Lowe chairman Frank Lowe of using proprietary information to damage his former agency [...]

In its most recent non-broadcast adjudication last month, the ASA described Maverick Media's 'Blood on the carpet' ad for Midway Games' Mortal Combat: Shaolin Monks as 'likely to cause fear […]