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    NEWS CORP LITIGATORS IN SECURITIES FRAUD CASE RESIGN ENMASSE enner & Block Hires Partners From Hogan Lovells in Los Angeles - Business Week -Largest member of Class - MySpace Founder Brad Greenspan New Evidence Shows Tabloid Spied On Murdoch Critic by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON December 7, 2011, 05:55 pm LONDON (AP) — Newly disclosed evidence in Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal confirmed Wednesday that an outspoken critic of Rupert Murdoch was put under surveillance by his now defunct tabloid the News of The World. Lawmaker Tom Watson, who has led efforts to expose the extent of malpractice in Britain's newspaper industry, was followed for five days in 2009 by private investigator Derek Webb, a former police officer. Law firm Linklaters, which represents the management and standards committee of Murdoch's News Corp., said in a letter sent to Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport committee — which is investigating phone hacking — that three employees of the tabloid were responsible for commissioning Webb to spy on the Labour Party legislator. "We do not think it appropriate to name the individuals involved given the ongoing police investigations," Linklaters said in its letter. Lawyer Mark Lewis, who was also spied on by the newspaper, had previously said that he had seen evidence that Watson, a former government minister, had been under surveillance. The admission "is no longer surprising, though I am intrigued to know the names of the three executives who commissioned the covert surveillance," Watson told The Associated Press in a text message. Linklaters also acknowledged that internal inquiries showed that the ex-chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks, had authorized a settlement in 2010 with celebrity publicist Max Clifford over the hacking of his phone. "Mrs. Brooks was authorized to conclude this agreement by virtue of her position as chief executive of News International. The MSC (News Corp. Management and Standards Committee) has seen no information to suggest that this agreement was discussed by the boards of News Group Newspapers, News International or News Corporation," the letter said. Watson said that disclosure threw up more questions over the extent to which the tabloid's executives were aware of malpractice. "Was she aware that others were involved in wrongdoing and if so, why didn't she immediately act," he told the AP. Brooks, a former News of The World editor, was arrested by police in July and later released on bail. Parliament's culture committee had asked Linklaters whether all 11 of its members, including Watson, had been put under surveillance. News Corp. had "no information yet to suggest that any other member of the committee (or their family or friends) was under surveillance," the law firm said in the letter, dated Dec. 1. In another letter, Neville Thurlbeck, a former chief reporter at the News of The World — who was arrested on suspicion of phone hacking and later released — told the committee he had repeatedly offered executives what he says is evidence that several members of staff were aware of the use of hacking at the tabloid. For many months, executives maintained that phone hacking was the work of a single rogue reporter. Thurlbeck insists that claim was false, and that he had urged two key executives to review his contradictory evidence to before they appeared before lawmakers and laid the blame on a lone employee. "They were in possession of all this knowledge and they failed to disclose it to the committee," he wrote in his letter to the panel dated Nov. 29. Only two people have been jailed for phone hacking, both in 2007 — News of the World reporter Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator convicted over hacking into the voicemail messages of royal staff while working for the tabloid. The release of the documents came as British police arrested an 18th suspect in their investigation, named by

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    NEWS CORP LITIGATORS IN SECURITIES FRAUD CASE RESIGN ENMASSE enner & Block Hires Partners From Hogan Lovells in Los Angeles - Business Week -Largest member of Class - MySpace Founder Brad Greenspan New Evidence Shows Tabloid Spied On Murdoch Critic by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON December 7, 2011, 05:55 pm LONDON (AP) — Newly disclosed evidence in Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal confirmed Wednesday that an outspoken critic of Rupert Murdoch was put under surveillance by his now defunct tabloid the News of The World. Lawmaker Tom Watson, who has led efforts to expose the extent of malpractice in Britain's newspaper industry, was followed for five days in 2009 by private investigator Derek Webb, a former police officer. Law firm Linklaters, which represents the management and standards committee of Murdoch's News Corp., said in a letter sent to Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport committee — which is investigating phone hacking — that three employees of the tabloid were responsible for commissioning Webb to spy on the Labour Party legislator. "We do not think it appropriate to name the individuals involved given the ongoing police investigations," Linklaters said in its letter. Lawyer Mark Lewis, who was also spied on by the newspaper, had previously said that he had seen evidence that Watson, a former government minister, had been under surveillance. The admission "is no longer surprising, though I am intrigued to know the names of the three executives who commissioned the covert surveillance," Watson told The Associated Press in a text message. Linklaters also acknowledged that internal inquiries showed that the ex-chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks, had authorized a settlement in 2010 with celebrity publicist Max Clifford over the hacking of his phone. "Mrs. Brooks was authorized to conclude this agreement by virtue of her position as chief executive of News International. The MSC (News Corp. Management and Standards Committee) has seen no information to suggest that this agreement was discussed by the boards of News Group Newspapers, News International or News Corporation," the letter said. Watson said that disclosure threw up more questions over the extent to which the tabloid's executives were aware of malpractice. "Was she aware that others were involved in wrongdoing and if so, why didn't she immediately act," he told the AP. Brooks, a former News of The World editor, was arrested by police in July and later released on bail. Parliament's culture committee had asked Linklaters whether all 11 of its members, including Watson, had been put under surveillance. News Corp. had "no information yet to suggest that any other member of the committee (or their family or friends) was under surveillance," the law firm said in the letter, dated Dec. 1. In another letter, Neville Thurlbeck, a former chief reporter at the News of The World — who was arrested on suspicion of phone hacking and later released — told the committee he had repeatedly offered executives what he says is evidence that several members of staff were aware of the use of hacking at the tabloid. For many months, executives maintained that phone hacking was the work of a single rogue reporter. Thurlbeck insists that claim was false, and that he had urged two key executives to review his contradictory evidence to before they appeared before lawmakers and laid the blame on a lone employee. "They were in possession of all this knowledge and they failed to disclose it to the committee," he wrote in his letter to the panel dated Nov. 29. Only two people have been jailed for phone hacking, both in 2007 — News of the World reporter Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator convicted over hacking into the voicemail messages of royal staff while working for the tabloid. The release of the documents came as British police arrested an 18th suspect in their investigation, named by

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    Jenner & Block Hires Partners From Hogan Lovells in Los Angeles - Businessweek

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    By Cullen Wheatley Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Jenner & Block LLP, a U.S. law firm with about 470 attorneys, hired six partners from the Los Angeles office of Hogan Lovells US LLP for its commercial entertainment and media litigation group. Jenner & Block said in a statement that it hired Richard L. Stone, an antitrust and copyright lawyer in the media and entertainment industries; Kenneth D. Klein, a contract and antitrust attorney; Carissa C.W. Coze, a corporate transactions specialist; Amy M. Gallegos, who specializes in entertainment and media industry commercial litigation; intellectual property and entertainment litigator Julie Ann Shepard; and David R. Singer, an entertainment and media litigator. All will work in the Los Angeles office. We have been working together as a team for many years and the opportunity to move together to work at Jenner & Block to help build upon its existing group of leading media and entertainment clients was ideal, Stone said. This was the perfect fit for us and where we see our practice expanding well into the future. Chicago-based Jenner & Block will increase its total number of lawyers in the Los Angeles office from 20 to 26, said Rick Richmond, a managing partner in Los Angeles. The group has recently represented News Corp. and many of its current and former subsidiaries, such as Fox Broadcasting Co., Dow Jones & Co., Harper Collins Publishers Ltd., and MySpace Inc., the firm said. Fitting In We expect them to fit right in with what theyve been doing, which is high-octane commercial litigation, Richmond said in a phone interview. Stephen Kay, Hogan Lovellss managing partner of its Los Angeles office, said in a phone interview that its likely the departing partners will take clients with them. Some of them have relationships (with clients) that I imagine they will seek to continue, Kay said. This is, in the scheme of things, not going to have a significant impact on our West Coast practice. Hogan Lovells US LLP is affiliated with Hogan Lovells International, which has 40 offices and more than 2,300 attorneys, the firm said. --Editors: Mary Romano, Fred Strasser To contact the reporter on this story: Cullen Wheatley in New York at cwheatley2@bloomberg.net. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Hytha at mhytha@bloomberg.net.
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