Athens Bar Association

Greece's Council of State, it's top administrative court, decided that the Greek lawyers strike that started on January 12 is illegal and in violation of the Greek constitution and international law. The lawyers' strike brought Greek courts to a...

The ongoing anti-austerity strike by the country’s lawyers, which is in its fifth month and opposes the latest measures in the security fund and pension plan, has caused great confusion in Greek courts as about 300,000 legal cases are...

Thousands of Greek professionals and freelancers took it to the streets on Thursday protesting against the government's planned security funds reform. About 7,000 lawyers, engineers, doctors, solicitors, pharmacists, tax accountants, architects, small business owners and dozens of other freelance workers gathered outside...

PASOK MP Thanos Moraitis, joining a chorus of dissent against party leader Evangelos Venizelos, has become the first to call for the Socialist chief to step down as its popularity keeps plummeting. Moraitis was the first in the party to...

A trapped envelope arrived at 2:15 p.m. at building 6 of the former Hellenic Military Academy. The sender seems to be the Athens Bar Association and the receiver was the administration of the Court of First Instance. Due to the...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has withdrawn his plan to get rid of deadwood problem workers to help meet international lender requirements to pare the workforce by 25,000 people in the next two years after objections from his coalition...

Mountains of rubbish are accumulating on the streets of Athens and courtroom doors remain closed. These are the results of municipal workers and judges strikes still raging in the Greek capital in a sign of their protest of the new,...

It’s a good thing that Costas Vaxevanis, one of a handful of legitimate journalists left in Greece in a country where too many are in the bag to politicians and the rich, wasn’t standing in front of a hole...

As he faces trial on charges of violating privacy laws for publishing a list of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss bank who were never checked for possible tax evasion, investigative journalist Costas Vaxevanis has...

The board of the Athens Bar Association (ABA) said it was surprised that a Greek investigative journalist was prosecuted on violation of privacy laws a day after he released a list of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95 in deposits in...