Harbottle

"The retainer was expressly limited to the context of Mr. Goodman's employment dispute," Harbottle said.

New Issues Emerge for News Corp. in Britain Paul Sonne 2011

Emails submitted to the Parliamentary committee show how Mr. Chapman pressed Harbottle & Lewis lawyer Lawrence Abramson to rephrase the firm's May 2007 letter of its findings to include language that more fully supported News of the World.

New Issues Emerge for News Corp. in Britain Paul Sonne 2011

One new claim comes in a 2007 letter written by Mr. Goodman—and submitted to the committee by onetime News Corp. law firm Harbottle & Lewis LLP.

New Testimony Puts News Corp. Under Fresh Fire Over Hacking 2011

James Murdoch said the Harbottle letter became a key basis for the company's long-time assertion that phone hacking was limited to one of the tabloid's reporters—a claim that proved untrue.

New Issues Emerge for News Corp. in Britain Paul Sonne 2011

Specifically, Harbottle examined a selection of emails Mr. Goodman had exchanged with five editors.

New Issues Emerge for News Corp. in Britain Paul Sonne 2011

Harbottle & Lewis's managing partner, Glen Atchison , said: We are unable to comment substantively at this time as the matters raised are the subject of an ongoing investigation by the Metropolitan Police.

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Two News International employees reviewed emails from the accounts of six individuals and passed those to an outside law firm, Harbottle & Lewis LLP, for advice, according to documents previously released by the committee.

Murdochs Are Grilled Cassell Bryan-Low 2011

In a letter to News International also previously released by the committee, Harbottle & Lewis said there didn't appear to be "reasonable evidence," that the phone hacking involved other employees beyond the reporter who had been convicted.

Murdochs Are Grilled Cassell Bryan-Low 2011

It also instructed solicitors Harbottle & Lewis that it was released from a confidentiality agreement that prevented it from telling the police how it had come to write a wholly inaccurate letter to the culture select committee in 2007 insisting the phone hacking and illegal activities had been confined to a sole reporter.

David Cameron spoke to Rupert Murdoch's executives about BSkyB bid 2011

Harbottle found there was no evidence, in those emails, that the five editors knew about or sanctioned phone hacking.

New Issues Emerge for News Corp. in Britain Paul Sonne 2011