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Britney Spears' Lawyer Quits Custody Case
Britney Spears' Lawyer Quits Custody Case
Maybe her fourth attorney will be the charm. Britney Spears ' high-powered L.A. attorney Sorrell Trope filed papers Wednesday asking the court for permission to be relieved from representing the pop star. "There has been a breakdown in communications" between his firm and Spears "making further representation of her interests impossible," Trope stated in his motion. News of the latest blow to Spears in her ongoing custody battle with Kevin Federline was first reported by TMZ , which also ...
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Britney Dumped By Attorney… Again
CelebWarship — ... For the third time recently, a legal firm representing Britney Spears ditched the broad. The high-powered LA firm Trope & Trope filed papers with the court asking to be relieved of their duties representing the train-wreck pop star. ...

Spears’ Lawyer Does Not Want a Piece of Britney, Quits Child Custody Case
Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily — Britney Spears’ runaway legal train has lost another conductor, as lawyer Sorrell Trope is leaving her child custody case because of “a breakdown in communication.” Trope’s departure Wednesday came after yet another missed deposition by Spears, the second one she’s skipped in the last month and her fifth missed deposition overall. Trope has been practicing divorce law for over fifty years. We’re assuming by the thousand-word list of achievements on the Personal History page of his Web site, he’s a pretty accomplished guy. And yet the mystery that is Britney is a puzzle even he cannot ...

Another One Bites The Dust
BricksAndStonesGossip.com — ... embarrassment in front of the judge.” Wow, that’s pathetic. Usually the client of a lawyer that makes $730,000 a month would be absolutely coveted, but Brit Brit managed to get fired by someone she hired! I guess it makes sense since she failed to appear at her deposition the same day that Trope filed their request, marking her fifth missed deposition hearing. I guess Starbucks was too crowded to make it to court in time. Ahh, priorities…. Source

Britney Timeline
Crazy Days and Nights — ... 9 p.m.: Kaplan leaves Spears' home. Spears' lawyer - who filed a request to be released from representing the pop star Wednesday - Sorrell Trope, tells Us: "In a normal case when someone shows up with a certified court order saying the kids need to be somewhere else, the police see to it that the order is obeyed. But that is in a normal case." ...

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