The latest bad legal news for Rudy Giuliani is that his lawyers no longer want to represent him in a civil case arising from his defamation of former Georgia election officials Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who are seeking to recover the multi-million verdict Dollars won against him.
The specific reason or reasons for the withdrawal requested by the two lawyers are not completely clear, as the court application requesting withdrawal is partially redacted.
However, attorney Kenneth Caruso's opinion filed Wednesday, which was also adopted by attorney David Labkowski in his own opinion, states that the reasons for his request to withdraw “arisen from Rules of Professional Conduct 1.16(c)(4), (6) and ( 7) emerge.” He noted that the rule provides:
A lawyer may withdraw from representing a client if: . . . (4) the client insists on taking actions with which the attorney fundamentally disagrees; . . . (6) Client insists on presenting a claim or defense that is not warranted under applicable law and cannot be supported by good faith arguments for extension, modification, or repeal of applicable law. [or] . . . (7) the client fails to participate in the representation or otherwise makes the representation unreasonably difficult so that the lawyer can carry out his work effectively[.]
The motion followed a hearing last week in which the judge called it “ridiculous” that Giuliani didn't know where his assets were. To the extent that Giuliani insists that his lawyers continue to mount an absurd defense on his behalf, they appear to have reached their breaking point.
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