Collins Entertainment Corp. v. Columbia "20" Truck Stop, Inc.

Collins Entertainment Corporation appeals the final order of the circuit court granting the motion of its attorney of record, J.P. Strom, Jr., to retroactively relieve him as counsel for Collins in its action against Columbia “20” Truck Stop, Inc. and others (Columbia “20”). We reverse.

I. FACTS

In February 1996, Collins sued Columbia “20”. Strom and another attorney filed the complaint on behalf of Collins and, thus, became Collins’s attorneys of record in the action. According to Strom, Collins’s general counsel informed him in March of 1996 that his involvement in the case was no longer…