Deadline Hollywood Daily blogger Nikki Finke didn't disclose that a law firm she wrote about is representing her in a lawsuit against E-Trade over surreptitious recording, the New York Observer says.

Asked about the lawsuit, Ms. Finke said that she did not want to discuss her personal life. She said that she intended to go back and correct the item to include the fact that Mr. Johnson was also one of her attorneys. “I totally forgot,” she said. “I’m very scrupulous about things like that. It was a busy news day. I was posting a lot of breaking stories. And I wasn’t thinking about myself.” (She said she became aware of the Klugman case via an e-mail that was sent to various journalists.)

The ongoing class action suit, which Ms. Finke filed under her married name, Nikki Greenberg (she explained that this is simply the name that appears on her passport), echoes a beef she apparently had with Women’s Wear Daily reporter Jacob Bernstein last July; according to an editor’s note, WWD pulled Mr. Bernstein’s profile of her from their Web site “based on confusion over Bernstein’s taping of a conversation he had with Finke”—which is illegal in California, where Ms. Finke resides.


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