Judith Regan v. News Corp.

What comes around, goes around? Judith Regan, the would-be publisher of O.J. Simpson’s If I Did It, settled the lawsuit over her termination with former employer News Corp. for $10.75 million, but she apparently didn’t learn any lessons. The lawyers who won her that hefty sum ended up suing her, complaining that she fired them in order to avoid paying them legal fees. The lawyers worked for 1,240 hours on Regan’s case, only to be notified by new lawyers on December 14 that their services were no longer needed. Regan settled with them in January for an undisclosed sum. This all is coming to light as the head of the law firm, Marc Dreier, goes on trial for fraud in an unrelated case.