TENTATIVE RULING 

Calendar: 13

Date: 04/25/2025

Case No. 24  NNCV06771 Trial Date: None Set  

Case Name: Kreutinger v. Tahanian, et al. 

MOTION TO BE RELIEVED AS COUNSEL

Moving Party: L.A. Injury Attorneys

Name of Client: Plaintiff Maria Gabrielle Kreutinger (No Opposition)  

Correct address in proof of service?   

 Client: ok   

 Other parties: ok 

16/+5 day lapse? ok   

RELIEF REQUESTED:

Order permitting attorney to be relieved as attorney of record in this action 

GROUNDS FOR MOTION:

Irremediable rupture in attorney-client relationship, breakdown in communication and cooperation from client   

DECLARATION BY MOVING ATTORNEY:

 Reasons why motion is necessary:    Yes  

 Address recently confirmed (within last 30 days)

  By mail, return receipt requested    

PROPOSED ORDER:

Address and phone number of client set forth:   Yes    

Proper warning : Yes 

Future dates filled in:    Incomplete  

ANALYSIS:

The proposed order is not complete and is ordered to be modified before the order is signed.   

Specifically, at paragraph 8, the order fails to include as an additional hearing on this matter which is now scheduled—a Hearing on Demurrer—Without Motion to Strike scheduled for May 30, 2025, at 8:30 a.m. in Dept. D/Glendale which will concern a demurrer to plaintiff’s operative complaint by defendants.   

Counsel is ordered to modify the order before the motion will be granted. 

Once the orders is modified, the court will sign the order, and the attorney will be relieved as attorney of record effective upon the filing of proof of service of the signed order upon the client.  

RULING:

[No Opposition]

UNOPPOSED Motion to be Relieved as Counsel is GRANTED. 

The Court will sign the proposed Order Granting Attorney’s Motion to be Relieved as Counsel-Civil with the following modification:  in paragraph 8, the Order will indicate there is a Hearing on Demurrer—Without Motion to Strike scheduled for May 30, 2025, at 8:30 a.m. in Dept. D/Glendale which will concern a demurrer to plaintiff’s operative complaint by defendants.   

As so modified, the Court will sign the Order and counsel will be relieved effective upon the efiling of the proof of service of the signed order upon the client. 

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