Yesterday I reported to you all that Beyone was being sued for copyright infringement. I have more information for you guys.

Beyonce and Mathew have parted ways, well at leastin their choice of lawyers. Over the past month Beyonce and Destinys Child Inc. which is ran by Mathew have tapped seperate counsel.

Rickey Allen the person suing claims he wrote the song in 1992 and got the copyrights in 1994.

In 2006 Allen sued Kelly, Michelle, Beyonce, Destinys Child Inc, and companies associated including Mcdonalds which had sponsored the tour, for copyright infringement, misappropriation, fraud and breach of contract, claiming damages of more than $500 million. All counts except infringement have been dismissed since then. The trial will take place Dec. 8, 2009 and is expected to last a week. Beyonce, Kelly, and Michelle will be called up as witnesses.

Until October, Henry James Fasthoff IV, a shareholder with Stumpf Farrimond in Houston, and Donald Tarkington, a partner at Novack and Macey in Chicago, had been representing Beyonce and her former bandmates as well as Destiny’s Child Inc. and related corporate entities. They were hired in January 2007.  But last month Fasthoff and Tarkington dropped out of the case and were replaced by Reed Smith partner James Hultquist and associate Raven Moore with respect to all the defendants except Destiny’s Child Inc.