Nearly the Last Harry Dunn Update, Maybe

I see by yesterday's court docket update that the final pretrial conference is set for November 17, in the Alexandria Federal Courthouse, before the new judge in the case, Rossie Alson, Jr., who is, by the way, a Trump appointee. 

The new judge was assigned after the old one, Judge Ellis, rather mysteriously recused himself during last Friday's hearing. That hearing was in regard to a motion filed by the Dunn family to enforce the financial settlement they'd arrived at with the American driver and/or her insurance company. A simple matter, except that the Dunn family's first set of lawyers on their case - Cohen, Milstein, Sellers, and Toll - have filed their own motion demanding to be paid for their work before the Dunns and their second set of lawyers see a cent of that settlement money. 

The American driver is now out of this matter, which has become solely a case between the Dunns and their lawyers. 

I'm anxious to see how this will play out. According to unreliable and unsourced Twitter gossip from UK parties, this conflict was caused by the Dunn's horrendously bad but all-encompassing advisor, who convinced them that their first set of lawyers are owned nothing because they opted to remove themselves from the case despite spending well over a year working for the Dunns. 

I suspect he was also the reason that CMST removed themselves from the case. They had probably negotiated a nice settlement, but one that didn't meet his thoroughly unrealistic expectation of "a significant compensation claim that will be in the region of millions of dollars" and so he convinced the family to reject that offer.

So the stage is set for a battle between that grifter and two different sets of lawyers. As Henry Kissinger once said apropos of something else, it's just too bad they all can't lose.