Filed: Feb. 16, 2017
Latest Update: Feb. 16, 2017
Summary: MOTION TO WITHDRAW AS COUNSEL C.W. HOFFMAN, Jr. , Magistrate Judge . COMES NOW, James K. Schultz of the law firm Sessions, Fishman, Nathan & Israel, LLC, counsel for Defendants, Aargon Agency, Inc. and Armand Fried ("Defendants"), and files this Motion to Withdraw as Counsel for Defendants pursuant to Local Rule IA 10-6. This Motion is made based on the following: 1) This matter has been submitted by Aargon Agency, Inc. to its insurance carrier, and the law firm of Carlson & Messer, LLP w
Summary: MOTION TO WITHDRAW AS COUNSEL C.W. HOFFMAN, Jr. , Magistrate Judge . COMES NOW, James K. Schultz of the law firm Sessions, Fishman, Nathan & Israel, LLC, counsel for Defendants, Aargon Agency, Inc. and Armand Fried ("Defendants"), and files this Motion to Withdraw as Counsel for Defendants pursuant to Local Rule IA 10-6. This Motion is made based on the following: 1) This matter has been submitted by Aargon Agency, Inc. to its insurance carrier, and the law firm of Carlson & Messer, LLP wa..
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MOTION TO WITHDRAW AS COUNSEL
C.W. HOFFMAN, Jr., Magistrate Judge.
COMES NOW, James K. Schultz of the law firm Sessions, Fishman, Nathan & Israel, LLC, counsel for Defendants, Aargon Agency, Inc. and Armand Fried ("Defendants"), and files this Motion to Withdraw as Counsel for Defendants pursuant to Local Rule IA 10-6. This Motion is made based on the following:
1) This matter has been submitted by Aargon Agency, Inc. to its insurance carrier, and the law firm of Carlson & Messer, LLP was retained by the insurance carrier to represent Defendants.
2) The law firm of Lincoln, Gustafson & Cercos LLP will stay on as local counsel in this case.
3) Defendants recently filed a Motion to Consolidate this lawsuit with ten other related lawsuits filed in this district. Carlson & Messer will file a pro hac vice motion into the first two filed cases of the eleven that are the subject of the Motion to Consolidate. Carlson & Messer will then substitute into those two cases for Sessions Fishman Nathan & Israel, LLC while the Motion to Consolidate is pending. Lincoln Gustafson & Cercos, LLP will remain as counsel in all 11 cases.
4) At this point, no specific delay in a deadline will result from the Withdrawal.
5) Good cause is present in this case to grant the withdrawal, due to the Defendants' insurance carrier retaining Carlson & Messer LLP to defend Defendants.
