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Trump’s Law Firm Files to Withdraw From Representing Him Due to ‘Irreparable’ Attorney-Client Relationship
Yet another Donald Trump law firm has dumped him – though, technically, this one represented the Trump Campaign, which is a different entity than Trump personally, no matter how closely tied the two may be.
The law firm—LaRocca, Hornik, Greenberg, Rosen, Kittridge, Carlin, and McPartland— filed the motion in a Manhattan court citing an “irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship.”
Well, that’s open to just about any interpretation, from payment schedules to the fact that Trump won’t keep his mouth shut or follow the firm’s advice.
In this case, the firm represented the campaign against A. J. Delgado, an employee who became pregnant with campaign advisor Jason Miller’s baby in 2016 during the campaign and was fired. (It is confusing as to whether Delgado asserts that she was fired due to the pregnancy itself or to get rid of her demands on Miller.) Delgado had been the director of Trump’s outreach to Hispanic voters.
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Along with the official campaign itself, Delgado is suing Sean Spicer (Former Trump Spokesman) and Lance Preibus (Former Trump Chief of Staff) as part of the lawsuit, making it sound like a wrongful termination suit.
Attorney Jared Blumetti filed the motion to withdraw and requested that the details and rationale be evaluated by the court “in camera,” generally meaning in the judge’s quarters and with both parties’ attorneys present.
According to Newsweek’s report:
“The primary reason for the Firm’s motion is due to an irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship between the Firm and the [Trump] Campaign, the details of which the Firm respectfully requests leave to explain to the Court in camera,” Blumetti wrote in the filing.
An “irreparable breakdown” can mean just about anything. It could mean that Trump refused to follow the firm’s advice during discovery or even the fact that Trump simply doesn’t have time to answer the firm’s requests. Often, the firm attempting to withdraw is worried that the firm itself will be sanctioned for being unable to meet deadlines or other issues.
So it’s impossible to know with any certainty. The fact that the meeting is private (“In camera”) likely means that it’s not a matter of money because a firm might otherwise like to embarrass Trump or simply file its own lawsuit for unpaid fees.
It’s tough to tell. The only thing known with certainty is that this is far from the only firm to withdraw from a Trump case and will likely not be the last.
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Jason Miciak is Executive Editor of Political Flare and can be reached at jasonmiciak@gmail.com
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