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Squeezed budgets and an increase in disputes cases are causing global companies to hire specialist lawyers rather than relying on external law firms, a survey has found. | 13yrs

Californian technology giant Apple has received a significant ruling from the US International Trade Commission after a case brought by Google's Motorola unit was deemed invalid. | 13yrs

Lawyers have undertaken a complete strike in Pakistan's fourth largest city following the kidnapping and manhandling of a senior lawyer which sparked mass protests. | 13yrs

An all-day protest by some 400 barristers in the North West of England yesterday caused major disruptions in courts as the legal profession continues to battle against changes to legal aid. | 13yrs

An American entertainment lawyer who has represented a number of global film stars has used a media awards event to rip into conservative members of the Supreme Court. | 13yrs

A German data watchdog has slapped US internet giant Google with a €150,000 fine after finding that the search engine company captured and recorded information from unsecure wi-fi networks. | 13yrs

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A member of the notorious Lulzsec hacking group has been sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to an attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. | 13yrs

Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf has been denied access to his legal team after they were refused entrance to his farmhouse which has been declared a sub-jail. | 13yrs

A key lawyers' association in Qatar is on the brink of closure as shrinking membership has left it without to support its activities. | 13yrs

Australia has been named as a key potential location for non-US class actions by a predictive study, which also claimed class action settlements in the Asia-Pacific region will be worth $3.4 billion by 2020. | 13yrs

The tangled web of legal action surrounding the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster twisted again over the weekend as the US states of Florida and Mississippi sued BP. | 13yrs

A former low-level employee at New York-based law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has pleaded guility to stealing $376,000 worth of copy machine toner from the firm. | 13yrs

American singer Katy Perry has become caught up in a bad tempered lawsuit with the owner of hair straightener manufacturer GHD over an alleged verbal agreement. | 13yrs

Stress is growing among UK lawyers who are unwilling to discuss their problems with employers, independent charity LawCare has found. | 13yrs

One of the founders of controversial file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been charged with hacking into several Swedish companies and stealing personal data. | 13yrs

Chicago law firm Shefsky & Froehlich has been accused of jeopardising the 'very corporate existence' of a Florida health products retailer after failing to find defects in the company's structure before its 2009 IPO. | 13yrs

Two lawyers in the Philippines were yesterday appointed by President Benigno Aquino III to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to bring 'integrity' to the proceedings. | 13yrs

Professional negligence claims have rocketed following the launch of a HM Revenue and Customs clampdown on promoters of tax avoidance schemes, City law firm RPC has claimed. | 13yrs