http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.mdd.156493/gov.uscourts.mdd.156493.280.0.pdf
The above was filed today by the Venable law firm asking "TO WITHDRAW APPEARANCE AS COUNSEL OF RECORD FOR HYDRA LLC."
The above was filed today by the Venable law firm asking "TO WITHDRAW APPEARANCE AS COUNSEL OF RECORD FOR HYDRA LLC."
After Hydra fell behind in its payment obligations, Venable contacted Hydra in December 2009 and was told, for the first time, that a California state court judge appointed a receiver for Hydra pursuant to a Stipulation for Appointment of Receiver and Preliminary Injunction in Aid of Receiver filed by and agreed upon by one of Hydra’s members (a living trust of which Hydra’s Chief Executive Officer Zac Brandenberg is the trustee) and Hydra itself. Venable then learned through counsel for the receiver that the court ordered the sale of all of Hydra’s assets to a new company formed by Brandenberg named Hydra Group LLC, f/k/a Marlboro Investment Group, and that the new company would not assume any debt owed to Venable. Counsel for the receiver then confirmed that Hydra has no assets.
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Here, Hydra “fail[ed] substantially to fulfill an obligation to the lawyer regarding the lawyer’s
services” within the meaning of Maryland Rule of Professional Conduct 1.16(b)(5) by breaching its obligation to pay Venable $486,531.72 for services provided and costs incurred by Hydra concerning this litigation.