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Jul. 15, 2021

Britney Spears can pick her own lawyer, judge rules

The new attorney, Mathew S. Rosengart, a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig LLP, wasted no time in calling on Spears’ father to honor his daughter’s wishes to resign as executor of her 13-year conservatorship.

Britney Spears can pick her own lawyer, judge rules
Mathew Rosengart, a former federal prosecutor, speaks with reporters outside the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, following a hearing concerning Britney Spears' conservatorship. Rosengart, who has worked with celebrities including Sean Penn and Steven Spielberg, will represent Spears in her conservatorship case. (New York Times News Service)

A Los Angeles County probate judge on Wednesday OK'd the hiring of a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig LLP to represent Britney Spears and in doing so agreed the pop star could pick her own lawyer even though she remains under a conservatorship.

The new attorney, Mathew S. Rosengart, wasted no time in calling on Spears' father to honor his daughter's wishes to resign as executor of the conservatorship.

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