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Apple has revoked Monster's authority to make licensed accessories for its devices, which Monster claims is retribution for the lawsuit it has brought against Apple unit Beats Electronics LLC. | 11yrs

A weekly round-up of moves around the globe. | 11yrs

The IT company used Italian employment law specialists LABLAW to assist its employment counsel Alan O'Rourke in sealing the deal with the unions. | 11yrs

A liberalisation of UK pension laws this year is leaving law firms wondering if there is a danger that their older staff 'may not want to or may not be able to afford to retire because they have not saved enough or have spent their pension funds'. | 11yrs

The head of failed Florida-based Butler & Hosch has been added as an individual defendant to a class action complaint brought by some ex-employees - and has been accused of creating $7m of false invoices that were not sent to clients. | 11yrs

The employee says that he agreed to reclassify a $1.4m payment to the then chair Steven Davis because he feared he would lose his job if he did not. | 11yrs

South African judges and a group of litigation lawyers have been praised for trying to get Sudan's President Bashir to appear at the International Criminal Court - even though the state seems to have made it easy for him to get away. | 11yrs

Linda Martin, famed for her role in the Accenture - Andersen separation, joins the 15-partner and 70-associate US Freshfields dispute resolution team in New York in September. | 11yrs

A private prosecution against an ex-Gibson Dunn partner by the former managing director of Leeds United football club and ex-general counsel of GFH Capital has been dismissed. | 11yrs

Singapore-based RHTLaw Taylor Wessing has taken on Anthony Chey and Vernon Voon as partners in the firm's litigation and dispute resolution practice from Tan Kok Quan Partnership. | 11yrs

On the verge of opening its first admin centre in Manchester in the UK, the Magic Circle firm has revealed that it plans to provide 24-hour admin support by opening two other units. | 11yrs

The merger this week of Shakespeares and SGH Martineau to take the combined practice into the UK Top 50 is being seen as a sign of the way the smaller players are taking on the leaders for FTSE 250 and other large businesses. | 11yrs

Baker & Botts has lost its long-running case about claiming costs over disputed fees - after the Supreme Court has held against it over the Asarco bankruptcy. | 11yrs

John McClenahan, former managing partner of Ashurst in the City, will become managing partner of the new King & Spalding office in Tokyo with an initial focus on energy and project finance. | 11yrs

Convergence is set to drive technology, media and entertainment M&A to new heights as companies fight for competitive edge. | 11yrs

Brown Rudnick has substantially increased its potential appeal to the Francophone emerging markets by recruiting Phillip Rogers to join them after 11 years at Clyde - just days after two Paris-based restructuring specialists moved over to the firm. | 11yrs

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has decided to go ahead with a keynote speech delivered by a senior White House official - despite opposition by several members who claim the administration has been hostile to immigrants. | 11yrs

Iberian law firm Uría Menéndez - Proença de Carvalho advised Cofidis Participations on the acquisition of Banif Mais | 11yrs

Cherie Blair, the wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair, has talked of the enduring business significance of the Magna Carta as part of the 800th anniversary celebrations of the sealing of the document. | 11yrs