Bert Fields appears to have retained his position as the most feared lawyer in Los Angeles, even though he was patron to alleged wiretapper Anthony Pellicano, was investigated by the FBI for it, and was subject to unflattering 2006 New Yorker and Vanity Fair features that painted Pellicano, while working on Fields cases, ruining the career of a nanny because she was a potential hostile witness and wiretapping Sylvester Stallone's phones. Pellicano's trial starts later this month, but Fields is doing fine. He's helping Tamara Mellon, the Jimmy Choo designer and ex of porn king Joe Francis, sue her own Mom for $10 million and, more impressively, helped win book publisher Judith Regan a rumored $20 million+ settlement in her wrongful termination case against no less than Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. Oh, and he bills out around $900 per hour. Not bad for an 80 year old. [Muckety]