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Niccolo Ghedini, the lawyer representing Silvio Berlusconi against sex and corruption charges, has claimed that prosecutors in a Milan court are in cahoots with judges. | 13yrs

Three of the London's highest grossing and most prestigious law firms have announced they are raising salaries for newly-qualified City-based lawyers, who can now earn up to £65,000 in their first year after qualifying to practice. | 13yrs

South Korean technology giant Samsung has claimed a surprise victory in its patent war with Apple which may see products made by the Californian company banned from sale in the US. | 13yrs

A senior judge has expressed shock and surprise following a request by the UK's fraud watchdog to receive special treatment in order to saver the taxpayer money. | 13yrs

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

US President Barack Obama has re-nominated the National Labour Relations Board's top lawyer Lafe Solomon, giving him another opportunity to be confirmed by the Senate. | 13yrs

The general counsel of Colorado's Roaring Fork Transportation Authority has landed in deep water after charging expenses relating to golf outings on a company credit card when he was scheduled to attend professional meetings. | 13yrs

A New York judge affirmed a lower court's decision to deny a motion by US energy giant Chevron to quash deposition notices for Chevron CEO John Watson and general counsel Edward Scott. | 13yrs

Court documents have revealed that US tech giant Apple is being sued by a company partly owned by a lawyer who until recently worked at one of its go-to law firms, Philadelphia-founded Morgan Lewis & Bockius. | 13yrs

The US Justice Department has denied Republican allegations that Attorney General Eric Holder committed perjury when he told Congress he had never been involved in a potential prosecution of the news media. | 13yrs

A judge was assaulted and had his wig pulled off by the brother of a man he was sentencing for a driving offence. | 13yrs

British internet service providers (ISPs) have said that proposals to automatically block online porn by law would not be a 'silver bullet'. | 13yrs

Financial lawyers in Switzerland are sweating over a cabinet proposal which may release their names - along with tax advisors and asset managers - to US tax evasion authorities. | 13yrs

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

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has secured a High Court ruling in New Zealand ordering police to return material seized in a raid last year that has been deemed irrelevant to his piracy case. | 13yrs

Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng is being courted by two US institutions with clashing ideologies just a year after his dramatic escape from house arrest in China. | 13yrs

Members of the Nigerian legal profession have expressed their support for new efficiency rules proposed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloma Mukhtar. | 13yrs

Nadège Nguyen, a partner at French law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel, has been elected as chair of leading independent law firm association Lex Mundi by the organisation's Board of Directors. | 13yrs

International law firms Norton Rose and Fulbright & Jaworski have today completed their transatlantic union, creating new global top 10 legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright. | 13yrs