Larson v. Grossman

Petitioner requests a writ of mandamus to compel the trial court to grant a motion to substitute counsel. We grant the writ.

This dispute involves the manner in which petitioner’s counsel in a personal injury suit left his former firm, taking petitioner as his client. The former firm complained loudly that the attorney’s conduct and actions were unethical and, if the allegations are true, illegal. When petitioner moved to substitute his attorney for the attorney’s former firm, the trial court denied the same based upon the allegations of how petitioner’s attorney had acquired the file from the…