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Article: Lawyer: Judith Regan Suit Against HarperCollins, News Corp., and Friedman "Was to Be Filed Today".
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- November 13, 2007
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Judith Regan, the book publisher who was fired from HarperCollins last December amid controversy over her acquisition of O.J. Simpson's If I Did It, was scheduled to file a libel and breach of contract lawsuit today against HarperCollins, its CEO Jane Friedman, and its parent company News Corporation, according to Ms. Regan's lawyer Bertram Fields.
Mr. Fields, who is based in Los Angeles, said he is not representing Ms. Regan in the suit. He did work on the case "in the beginning," but has since handed the reins over to Brian Kerr of New York-based firm Dreier LLP. (Gawker posted an anonymous letter earlier this afternoon incorrectly stating that the firm Milberg ...