Britney Spears Snags THR Power Lawyer

For the first time in her 13-year conservatorship, Britney Spears is being represented by a lawyer of her choosing. Judge Brenda Penny approved the appointment of Greenberg Traurig’s Mathew Rosengart during yet another bombshell hearing July 14, when Spears called for her father to be charged with “conservator abuse.” As Rosengart walked into Room 217 of the Stanley

Mosk Courthouse, front-row reporters were overheard whispering, “Is that him?” (Earlier, CNN’s Chloe Melas chased him to a nearby parking garage.) To Hollywood, he needs no introduction. Rosengart, who is married to ID-PR power publicist Mara Buxbaum, has represented everyone from Sean Penn to Steven Spielberg. He came out of the gate requesting that Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, the co-conservator of her estate, step down immediately. (The request was denied by Jamie’s attorney.) It is expected that Rosengart will act swiftly — and he is ready. As he told THR for its Power Lawyers issue this year, what he missed most during 2020 was “meeting clients in real life and physically being in court. Law is a tactile business, and while we were all able to work with Zoom, there is no substitute.”

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