Britney Spears would be the dream client for most lawyers – dumb enough to keep getting into trouble and rich enough to be able to pay for it – but not Sorrell Trope, which is a shame because he happens to be Britney Spears' lawyer.
Or he was. Or he is but won't be soon. Sorrell Trope has asked to quit the Britney Spears custody case citing a 'breakdown in communications' between the law firm and the singer. Although that's as far as the explanation goes, it's thought that the reason for Sorrell Trope's resignation is either a) that he's exasperated because Britney Spears keeps missing court-appointed deposition meetings, b) that he's as bored of this Britney Spears custody nonsense as the rest of us or c) that he's tired of having to constantly explain what a deposition actually is to Britney Spears. And what custody is. And what children are. And how pens work.
All Britney Spears has ever known in her life is success, whether it's success as a singer, success as an internet search term or success as owner of the world's most curiously nondescript female genitalia. And because of this success, nobody can tell Britney Spears what do. Nobody could tell her to rehearse for her MTV VMA performance, nobody could tell her not to drive through red lights with her kids in the car and a phone a millimetre away from her face and nobody can tell her to show up for very important custody depositions.
And that's probably why her lawyer wants to run away from Britney Spears as fast as his little legs can carry him.
Even though you got bored of the Britney Spears/ Kevin Federline custody bitchfight several months ago, as Britney's lawyer poor old Sorrell Trope has had to think about it every single sodding day since September when Britney's last lawyer ran screaming into the night. But now enough's enough and, coming to the conclusion that Britney Spears can no longer even pay people to like her, he wants to leave as well.
In a motion released on the very same day that Britney Spears failed to show up yet again for her long-awaited deposition, Sorrell Trope said:
"There has been a breakdown in communications between Petitioner and
Trope & Trope making further representation of her interests
impossible."
But since Trope's decision has come right in the middle of a case, he has to ask the court to leave rather than just quitting outright – a process that could take up to a month. That'll be an interesting month to play out given that in the average month Kevin Federline calls anything up to 450 emergency hearings every time he sees a picture of Britney looking a bit crosseyed on TMZ. How will Trope be able to assist Britney Spears during these? We're guessing with a sequence of embittered snorts, although perhaps he'll go up to a full-blown "pah" if the situation becomes serious enough.
However, let's not get carried away and assume that Britney Spears is completely without lawyers, because she isn't. In fact, Britney is current paying for a perfectly good legal team. Admittedly it's Kevin Federline's legal team, but that still counts, doesn't it?
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