Lead attorney – this term details the figure of a lawyer, who has been hired to represent two or more individuals who stay on the same side at the trial, and where their interests are equal – i.e. where there is no conflict of interests among these individuals.
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It has blank spaces for information, such as the names of the parties to the case, the case number, the name of the current attorney and the name of the new attorney. There may also be sections to provide the contact details of each attorney.
While the client may dismiss his attorney at any time , attorneys are bound by ethical, and sometimes legal, constraints that allow them to withdraw by way of a substitution of attorney form only under certain conditions.