Judith Regan, former high-powered publisher with News Corp.'s HaperCollins, who notoriously carried on a gross affair with disgraced criminal former top cop Bernie Kerik in a Ground Zero apartment, and who was fired for, among other things, embarrassing the company with her O.J. Simpson book (and some alleged anti-Semitic comments), and who settled a wrongful dismissal suit with News Corp. for a rumored $20m–$25m (or maybe $10m) will need that money to pay off her old lawyers, whom she dismissed in favor of showbiz law legend Bert Fields. Regan's old lawyers at Dreier LLP say they worked 1,200 hours and received only $125,000. Fields says the suit brought by the old attorneys is without merit. And it was reported in Page Six, a happy part of the News Corp. cabal family. [NYP]
Regan Sued By Dismissed Lawyers
9:59 AM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Pareene
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1,200 hours from a major law firm should be somewhere in the $600,000 range. I wish you could add a zero to those numbers, but sadly, she'll probably come out of this just fine.
Ok, she's all-around awful. But I really could have had a happier breakfast without the auditory image of her and Dirty Bernie making noises like an oil rig collapsing into the sea.
@bettycrocker
Well the only thing that could disgust you more is the phrase "Ann Coulter love sandwich". No?
a plague o' both your houses.
What I don't get is how she claimed to have controlled men by never letting them come. Maybe it was the subtle whisper of "I was born with a bigger dick than you," at a vital moment that did it.
@sadclown: Well, that or Perez Hilton in the throes.
As long as she has her cougar novelty gig at the Bunny Ranch, she'll be just fine.
@raincoaster: She likes 'em big and stupid, apparently.
What is "HaperCollins"?
Interesting... New York Court Rules state that a client has the right to arbitration in the event that a dispute regarding fees should arise. So I'm guessing that Dreier only brought Fields into it so they could actually keep it in court...
Which means they're either gonna drop the suit quickly if Regan doesn't settle right away, or this has the possibility of becoming a protracted (and juicy!) battle!
Yays!!
When will she be able to get beyond these petty annoyances so she can help Monica Lewinsky's best friend Linda Tripp enlighten the world with the book to end all books?
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