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Baker Botts is opening an office in Brazil to take advantage of the country's oil and infrastructure booms. | 13yrs

An ex-Eversheds partner takes over the helm at Magnusson. | 13yrs

Brazilian corporate legal departments are spending more with external counsel in sharp contrast with Europe, according to new research. | 13yrs

In a move to bolster business ties between Libya and the US, global anti-corruption organisation TRACE International and the American Chamber of Commerce in Libya have joined forces. | 13yrs

A weekly round-up of in-house legal moves from around the globe. | 13yrs

Female in-house lawyers have a new networking opportunity thanks to a group of six Australian lawyers who set up a website aiming to unite women in the in-house legal community. | 13yrs

The ABA House of Delegates is calling for lawyer-client privilege to apply to advice supplied to a law firm by its in-house counsel including matters related to work for the firm's clients. | 13yrs

Apple is taking the initiative in the latest round of the Apple-Samsung mobile patent wars when it seeks a ban of some Samsung devices in the US. | 13yrs

Indian lawyers are being paid the most among the BRIC economies when salaries are measured against GDP per head. | 13yrs

Stolen paintings by Gauguin, Matisse, Monet and Picasso are set to become major players in a Romanian court case - and are being offered by defendant lawyers in an attempt to reduce the sentences of the art thieves who are on trial. | 13yrs

Plans to locate the new HQ of the proposed Publicis Omnicom advertising giant in the Netherlands are part of a trend, according to lawyers acting in the deal. | 13yrs

London - regarded as the world's divorce capital - has just seen the awarding of the biggest divorce payment ever to a wife in a contested divorce. | 13yrs

PricewaterhouseCoopers is launching new guidelines to encourage businesses to devise more robust strategies on whistleblowing. | 13yrs

A weekly round-up of who's moving up, down or out in global legal practice. | 13yrs

US law firm King & Spalding has banned its employees from accessing their personal email accounts on the firm's computer system and laptops. | 13yrs

JP Morgan Chase could hear this week if any of its former employees will be charged over allegations that they tried to conceal losses of over $6 billion last year. | 13yrs

Newly elected American Bar Association President James Silkenat has pledged to put the lack of jobs facing newly qualified lawyers as one of his priorities during his year at the helm of the organisisation. | 13yrs

Several large practices in the UK are to take on 18-year old school leavers who will qualify as legal apprentices in 18 months. | 13yrs

Two law professors have been rebuked by judges over their 17-year old divorce proceedings - a battle which has lasted seven years longer than the marriage. | 13yrs