Attorney terminated - what does it mean

[GeorgeKwasi]

I was looking for a long lost friend who is an attorney. I traced him to a law firm last year. This year when I checked his name has disappeared from the company’s attorney list. I googled him and the only reference I had with respect to him was the following from a docket report:

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2/17/2007 MINUTE ORDER granting Unopposed 182 Motion to Withdraw as Counsel of Record. Attorney [insert name of friend] terminated, by Magistrate Judge [xxxxx] on 12/17/07.(sss, ) (Entered: 12/18/2007)

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What does this mean? Does it mean he had been fired? Was his firing recommended by the judge? He is a good friend I intended to linked up again with. I will appreciate it if someone could explain what these mean.

 

[Some Random Guy]

The attorney filed a motion to withdraw from the case. The opposing counsel did not object to this. Therefore the judge allowed him to leave the case, "terminating" his involvement.

Depending on the type of case, there may have been a replacement counsel or else there were alredy several lawyers on the case, and he did not need to be replaced. If he had quit his law firm and moved to a new one or started his own practice, it is not unusual that his company would take him off any active cases where there were other company attorneys on the case.

Do not read much into this procedural motion.

 

[deneen2008]

How to find a lawyer

Check out ******dale Hubble, they are outfit who tracks attorneys

 

[GeorgeKwasi]

Thanks guys. You have been extremely helpful.

 

[Hot Topic]

If you were a "good friend," he would have kept you updated on how to reach him. Your interest in whether he was fired or not isn't consistant with someone who's a good friend.

 

[las365]

Hot Topic, I thought this original post was strange, too. There are a lot of ways to find high school friends that don't include looking up stuff like what OP posted about.