As the scandal involving allegations of phone-hacking and bribery spreads like a fast-moving fire through the News Corporation media empire and into London law enforcement circles, more and more lawyers are landing assignments.
LegalWeek is reporting that the head of criminal litigation at U.K. firm Kingsley Napley, Stephen Parkinson, is representing Rebekah Brooks as a result of her arrest in connection with the scandal over the weekend. The former chief executive of News International–News Corp.’s subsidiary and operator of News of the World (NoW), the now-defunct tabloid at the heart of the controversy that LegalWeek has dubbed “Hackgate”–was arrested on suspicion of corruption and conspiring to intercept communications, according to a statement from The Metropolitan Police.
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