Dillon Danis possible must discover a new lawyer after the attorneys representing him within the ongoing lawsuit filed by Nina Agdal requested the decide to withdraw from the case.
In a submitting made on Sept. 12, Danis’ lead legal professional Mark Berman, on behalf of Hartmann Doherty Rosa Berman & Bulbulia LLP, filed a movement to withdraw as counsel after repeated points representing the previous Bellator fighter.
The attorneys filed to withdraw based mostly on “defendant’s failure to adjust to the phrases of the agency’s retainer settlement” and “a breakdown in communication between defendant and counsel which has resulted in, amongst different issues, counsel’s failure to make sure compliance with court docket orders.”
Within the movement to withdraw, Danis’ former attorneys said that he has “did not pay the agency’s month-to-month invoices in a well timed trend and has failed to take care of the required retainer settlement” based mostly on the contract to rent them and “this has been a recurring downside.”
“I personally like Mr. Danis, I discover this case to be an fascinating one and I would like to proceed representing him,” Berman wrote within the submitting. “Nevertheless, I can not achieve this successfully if he fails to reply to my communications and the agency is not going to enable me to take action if he fails to adjust to the phrases of the retainer settlement.
“For these causes, counsel respectfully asks the court docket to grant counsel depart to withdraw as counsel for the defendant.”
The lawsuit was initially filed back in September 2023 after Agdal — a well-known mannequin who’s engaged to social influencer and part-time boxer Logan Paul — accused Danis of posting “despicable” issues about her greater than 250 occasions since a boxing match he booked towards Paul was first introduced. Agdal claimed she suffered “humiliation, emotional misery and reputational hurt” from Danis’ repeated posts about her.
Agdal additionally claimed that a minimum of one put up Danis made concerned a sexually express picture taken from a “romantic encounter” greater than 10 years in the past, alleging it violated federal and state regulation.
Agdal requested for unspecified damages as a part of the lawsuit, however she’s requesting at least $150,000 per violation of federal regulation, which prohibits sharing intimate photos.
Following the movement to withdraw filed by his former attorneys, Decide Michael A. Hammer ordered an in-person convention scheduled on Sept. 24 to deal with the continued points, which features a long-running saga over the seek for a cellular phone that belonged to the fighter and that Danis “should seem in particular person” for the convention.
Trending Merchandise
