Former senator Nick Xenophon is seeking for the letter X to be removed from the name of the law firm he left.
Former South Australian senator and lawyer Nick Xenophon has sued his former law firm for still using a "derivative of his name" in its new business title despite him leaving the firm last year. In the claim, Mr Xenophon said he "is and has been referred to as Mr X in numerous media articles, reports and broadcasts related to his legal and/or political careers".
Mr Xenophon's claim states the deed required Mr Davis and Ms Nikolic to "cease using the applicant's name and any identifying marks, symbols or images which associated their firm with ". Mr Xenophon also argued in the document that the firm was engaging in deceptive conduct by using "XD" in the business name because it was "implying a commercial association and affiliation" with him.In a statement, Mr Davis — who is XD Law and Advocacy's director — hit back at the claims, saying he utterly "rejects Mr Xenophon's apparent belief that he owns a letter of the alphabet".