Wednesday, April 08, 2009

MICK SUES FORMER ATTORNEY

Fleetwood Mac Drummer Sues Attorney, Firm Over $4.5 Million in Fees

The drummer of Fleetwood Mac, Michael "Mick" Fleetwood, and several of his business partners, have sued their former attorney, Paul McDonald, and law firm, Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, for putting them on the hook for $4.5 million in attorney fees.

The Fleetwood group had hired the firm, which is based in Portland, Maine, to bring suit against a division of the British Broadcasting Corp. over distribution rights to rare musical recordings worth about $100 million, according to an amended complaint in the lawsuit, which was filed on March 26 in federal court in Maine. McNulty v. McDonald, No. 2:09-cv-00111 (D. Maine).

Michael J. Waxman, a solo practitioner in Portland, who represents the Fleetwood group, did not return a call for comment.

FULL ARTICLE (Law.com)

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