Britney Spears’ lawyer Sam Ingham asks to resign from conservatorship case

Britney Spears’ court appointed attorney, Samual D. Ingham III, asked to resign from her conservatorship case. Ingham’s decision to resign came less than 24 hours after Britney Spears’ manager quit and less than a week after Bessemer Trust, the co-conservator of Spears’ estate, left its position. 

In court documents, Ingham stated that he wanted to step down “upon the appointment of new court-appointed counsel.” The law firm Loeb & Loeb LLP, who was assisting Ingham in the case also plans to resign. 

Ingham claimed that he made the decision to resign after Britney Spears made claims about him in her “bombshell court hearing on June 23.” 

Britney Spears told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny that she was not aware that she could petition the conservatorship to end. Other sources claimed that Ingham “regularly gave Britney options, including requesting that the conservatorship should end.” 

Sources also alleged that Britney Spears had been feeling frustrated over Ingham’s failure to move to dissolve her conservatorship, claiming “Britney doesn’t understand what the holdup is. . .[s]he feels she made it crystal clear in court that she wants the conservatorship terminated, but nearly two weeks later, she’s still waiting for the petition to be filed.” 

It will be interesting to see how things shape up leading to the next hearing in Britney Spears’ conservatorship case, which is set for July 14th. 

See Eileen Reslen & Nicholas Hautman, Britney Spears’ lawyer Sam Ingham asks to resign from conservatorship case, Page Six, July 6, 2021. 

Special thanks to Joel C. Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this article to my attention.