Dillon Danis will now need to find new lawyers to defend himself in the Nina Agdal lawsuit as Hartmann Doherty Rosa Berman & Bulbulia LLP have now filed a motion to withdraw from the case. The case all began during the build-up to Danis’ boxing match with internet celebrity Logan Paul, who is engaged to Agdal. While trash talk is a regular part of many combat sports events, Danis decided to take things much further than the vast majority of fighters ever will. Danis targeted Agdal on social media, making a pretty wide range of allegations and sharing many images of her with the public.
This resulted in Danis allegedly being served with a ‘Cease and Desist’ by Paul, which he promptly ignored and continued the same line of attack. After that, Agdal pursued the logical next steps and filed a lawsuit against Danis herself. This all happened prior to Danis and Paul actually stepping in the ring together, and it was clear that there was plenty of bad blood involved. Danis ended up getting disqualified from the fight after it ended in a brawl, although Paul was clearly winning a decision up until that point. Danis hasn’t competed in any combat sport since then and has actually announced his retirement, although how long that lasts remains to be seen.
Dillon Danis has a lot on his plate at the moment of course, and defending himself in the Nina Agdal lawsuit is going to be a pretty high priority. A change of representation in the middle of a lawsuit is never a good thing of course, particularly one where the reasons for withdrawal are being blamed on the defendant. In this case, Danis’ lawyers have cited a “failure to comply with the terms of the firm’s retainer agreement” and “a breakdown in communication between defendant and counsel which has resulted in, among other things, counsel’s failure to ensure compliance with court orders.”
According to MMAFighting, the lead attorney working for Dillon Danis in the Nina Agdal lawsuit, Mark Berman, wrote the following in the motion to withdraw from the case:
“I personally like Mr. Danis, I find this case to be an interesting one and I would prefer to continue representing him. However, I cannot do so effectively if he fails to respond to my communications and the firm will not allow me to do so if he fails to comply with the terms of the retainer agreement. For those reasons, counsel respectfully asks the court to grant counsel leave to withdraw as counsel for the defendant.”
