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An attorney may voluntarily terminate the attorney-client relationship at any time and without reason, if this will not have a material adverse effect on the interests of the client. Even if the withdrawal will be adverse to the client the attorney may still withdraw for a number of reasons: The client is engaged in illegal or fraudulent activity.
Giuliani’s lead counsel Kenneth Caruso and attorney David Labkowski filed a motion in federal court in New York on Wednesday citing several reasons for their withdrawal, pointing to a ...
Ostensibly, the reason is to serve the law itself by preventing a court from making a decision that is erroneous in light of the authority revealed. [ 2 ] As a practical matter, an attorney who discovers adverse authority and fails to disclose it to the court may lose credibility with the court if the authority is found by opposing counsel, or ...
The absence of counsel is a recognized ground for continuance of a civil case and is in the discretion of the court to grant or deny. [77] [78] Illness, death or withdrawal of counsel in civil cases are also reasons for granting a continuance. [79]
Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that criminal defendants have a constitutional right to refuse counsel and represent themselves in state criminal proceedings.
White House counsel Richard Sauber calls the requests for documents and testimony “unjustified,” and characterized the impeachment inquiry as “illegitimate.”
A filing Talton made in court said he'd offered to return the documents through counsel, but the company had declined and fired him, then filed suit claiming trade secret violations.
Ineffective assistance of counsel is often raised in habeas challenges because it indirectly encompasses other claims that might have been brought on direct appeal, but were waived. Thus, a defendant making a constitutional claim for the first time on habeas review would argue that it was not made earlier on direct appeal because the lawyer was ...