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Article: Report: Court Filing Reveals That Firing Judith Regan Cost News Corp. $10.75 Million.
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- December 9, 2008
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Here's a trifle for the end of your day: Back in November 2007, Judith Regan hired Brian Kerr of Manhattan law firm Dreier LLP to file a $100 million defamation suit on her behalf against HarperCollins, its C.E.O. Jane Friedman, and its parent company News Corporation. At some point between then and the following January, when the former publisher settled with News Corp. for an undisclosed sum that allowed both parties to walk away from the fiasco without admitting any guilt, Ms. Regan secretly fired Mr. Kerr and went back to her old lawyer from Los Angeles, Bertram Fields.
It was Mr. Fields who brought Ms. Regan's case against News Corp. home, so to speak, but a few ...
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