The law firm defending Donald Trump is seeking to withdraw from a year-long case due to…

The law firm LaRocca, Hornik, Greenberg, Rosen, Kittridge, Carlin and McPartland, which filed a motion in a Manhattan court to stop representing former President Donald Trump and his election campaign.

Why does the company want to withdraw?

The firm cites an “irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship” as the root cause of this decision, as noted in recent court filings.

The law firm has a long history with Donald Trump and has been defending the former president in a lawsuit from AJ Delgado, a former top adviser during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Delgado, who also led Trump’s Hispanic outreach, claims she was unfairly fired from her position after revealing her pregnancy.

Delgado filed a lawsuit against Trump and his former advisers, Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer, for gender and pregnancy discrimination. Despite these serious claims, all of the defendants, including Trump, have denied any wrongdoing.

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Attorney Jared Blumetti, representing the firm, has asked to detail the reasons for the withdrawal privately to the court, or “behind closed doors,” to maintain confidentiality about the details of the complaint.

Blumetti wrote: “The primary reason for the Firm’s motion is due to an irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship between the Firm and the (Trump) Campaign, the details of which the Firm respectfully requests permission to explain to the Court behind closed doors. ”

“It is well established that a breakdown in the attorney-client relationship is sufficient reason to allow withdrawal, even if the origin of the breakdown is disputed and the client opposes the motion to withdraw.”

Citing previous case law, Blumetti said, “When faced with a motion to withdraw, the court ‘must…look at two factors: the reasons for the withdrawal and the impact of the withdrawal on the timing of the proceeding.’

The withdrawal “would not significantly affect the timing of this procedure. In fact, discovery is ongoing, several depositions remain and the case has not been scheduled for trial,” he stated.

It’s a ‘scheme to avoid compliance’: Delgado

Denouncing the firm’s withdrawal as a “scheme to avoid compliance,” Delgado filed an objection on April 29.

Judge Katharine H. Parker ruled that the law firm must maintain its representation of the Trump campaign. She also scheduled a hearing to further address the matter with the firm and the campaign.

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Delgado stated that she “felt extremely humiliated, degraded, victimized, embarrassed and emotionally distressed” following the Trump campaign’s announcement of her pregnancy.

He stated that the discrimination he faced was “willful, deliberate, outrageous and carried out with full knowledge of the law.”