Britney Spears’ legal team is fed up with her hooligan antics and recent shenanigans^© and no longer wishes to represent her in court. Much like former Spears lawyer Laura Wasser a few months back. TMZ says

The high-powered firm of Trope and Trope filed legal papers [yesterday] asking to withdraw as Brit’s hired guns in her custody dispute with [Kevin Federline]. In the legal papers, attorney Tara Scott from Trope and Trope wrote, “There has been a breakdown in communications between [Britney] and Trope and Trope making further representation of her interests impossible.” Sources tell TMZ the reason Trope and Trope withdrew is because Britney just didn’t listen to her lawyers’ advice, and her behavior was generally sinking her case.

Wait — now what? I thought lawyers were supposed to do just about anything for the almighty dollar. Chase ambulances, tamper with witnesses, arson, pet poisoning, whatever. But the one thing they won’t do for a couple hundred thou is show up in court for Britney Spears? Jesus, how hard can it fucking be? You could take a map of New Delhi and a few pages ripped out of a trig textbook and copy them onto some official looking letter head and BAM — 28 total billing hours for your “injunction for immediate custodial reversal petition herein stated thusly heretofore.” All you’d need is a couple of x’s down at the bottom for her signature and something along the lines of “Master Plan for Success” at the top and Britney would never be the wiser. It’s not like anyone’s expecting her to actually win or anything.

^©_{Copyright angry old men in bathrobes on front lawns 1956}

Britney shopping at the Virgin Megastore three days after Christmas: