Despite losing its chief executive and being fined nearly £300 million by US and UK regulators for rigging interbank lending rates, Barclays Bank has decided to take on Mother Nature and offer help to customers affected by the sodden British summer. | 14yrs
In a story that will chime with many music lovers, teenage pop star Justin Bieber is facing a $9.2 million lawsuit after a fan allegedly suffered hearing loss and severe tinnitus after attending one of his concerts in July 2010. | 14yrs
A couple from Colorado has criticised local authorities for treating the theft of a 'Vote Satan' banner as burglary rather than a hate crime. | 14yrs
Can you judge someone by their Twitter followers? That is the question put by Trevor Pott on the blog page of UK technology website, The Register. | 14yrs
'In England, the accountants rule. But it's the lawyers who are dominant in business in the United States,' says Brett Farrell, in a blog on The Lawyer newspaper's website. | 14yrs
The Law Society of Scotland recently released a guide for law firms that use LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, which covers media policy, data and legal implications, risk and ethical and security considerations. | 14yrs
Barclays, and other major banks, should press the reset button and appoint lawyers to their top jobs instead of identikit chief executive officers, says Eduardo Reyes in his blog for London-based weekly, the Law Gazette. | 14yrs
Offshore law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman has promoted three lawyers to its partnership. | 14yrs
London law firm Addleshaw Goddard has announced that international construction and engineering expert Andrew Greaves will be joining the firm to head its new Dubai office, which is set to open at the beginning of September. | 14yrs
French firm SBKG has strengthened its tax department with the recruitment of Caroline Couzineau, who joins from Pierre & Vacances where she was tax director. | 14yrs
Magic circle firm Linklaters has announced the appointment of senior competition lawyer Fay Zhou as a counsel, and Nancy Chang as an associate, in its competition practice in Beijing. | 14yrs
New York-headquartered global law firm Proskauer Rose has continued to build its global capital markets capabilities with the addition of three partners and a senior counsel to the firm's London office. | 14yrs
London-based commercial law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner has boosted the ranks of its funds team with the poaching of Justin Cornelius from fellow English firm Nabarro. | 14yrs
Dutch law firm AKD advised on the spin-off of Cergentis - a Utrecht-based genetic analysis technology developer. | 14yrs
K&L Gates has secured a $840.5 million payment for its Netherlands-based client Astra Oil Trading following four years of litigation against the North American arm of Brazil's national oil company, Petrobras Brasiliero. | 14yrs
A trio of international law firm teams from the Middle East and London advised on the $1.2 billion expansion of Saudi Arabia's Madinah Airport, the first full public-private partnership project in the country. | 14yrs
New York-headquartered law firm Skadden is representing leading French botanical beauty care brand Yves Rocher Group. | 14yrs
Benelux law firm NautaDutilh has assisted California-based microchip producer Intel Corporation in its research and development commitment and equity investment in Dutch photolithography systems supplier ASML Holding, which is valued at €3.3 billion. | 14yrs
Paris-based law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel advised leading French wine producer Castel Frères on the purchase of six companies from the Patriarche group, which are active in the production of still and sparkling wines. | 14yrs
International law firm Norton Rose advised Queensland-based gold producer Allied Gold Mining on its merger with domestic rival St Barbara. | 14yrs