Britney Spears is finally allowed to choose her own lawyer in the ongoing conservatorship battle

• Britney Spears is now allowed to hire her own lawyer in her conservatorship case.
• Spears' previous court-appointed lawyer Sam Ingham filed to resign on July 6.
• The pop star gave an explosive testimony in June, asking to end her "abusive" conservatorship.
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Britney Spears can finally pick her own lawyer in her conservatorship legal battle.

Judge Brenda Penny ruled on Wednesday that Spears is able to hire her own lawyers in her 13-year conservatorship, The New York Times reported.

The ruling comes just over a week after Spears' previous court-appointed lawyer, Samuel D. Ingham, III, filed to resign on July 6. David Nelson, of the law firm Loeb & Loeb, also submitted his resignation. In 2020, Ingham had sought court approval to have Loeb & Loeb assist him in upcoming litigation.

At Wednesday's conservatorship hearing, the judge approved Nelson and Ingham's resignation and also approved a request to represent Spears filed by high-profile celebrity attorney and former federal prosecutor Mathew Rosengart. TMZ first reported that Rosengart was Spears' top pick for a new attorney.

Spears' wish to hire her own attorney was previously supported by her mother Lynne, who filed a petition to the court on July 6 requesting that her daughter be allowed to hire her own lawyers. According to the court filing first obtained by Buzzfeed News, Lynne said Spears has been able to care for herself "for the past many years."

Spears claimed Ingham previously told her it's 'not good' to speak up about the conservatorship

Ingham had represented Spears since the start of her conservatorship in 2008.

At the time of Ingham's resignation filing earlier in July, sources told TMZ that the lawyer was upset with Spears' June testimony, and said Ingham "regularly gave Britney options" in the case.

During her explosive testimony at her June 23 conservatorship hearing, Spears said that Ingham had advised the pop star against speaking up about the conservatorship, which she called "abusive."

"My lawyer, Sam, has been very scared for me to go forward because he's saying if I speak up, I'm being overworked in that facility of that rehab place, that rehab place will sue me," Spears said of Ingham.

She added: "I've been talking to him like three times a week now. We've kind of built a relationship but I haven't really had the opportunity by my own self to actually handpick my own lawyer by myself. And I would like to be able to do that."

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