(PS) Aziz v. U.S. Postal Service
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 FARZAD AZIZ, No. 2:20-cv-01200-MCE-KJN Plaintiff, v. ORDER UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 Presently before the Court is an unopposed Motion to Withdraw as Counsel (ECF No. 8) filed by Schultz Law Group, PC (“Counsel”), counsel for Plaintiff Farzad Aziz (“Plaintiff”), by which Counsel seeks to withdraw leaving Plaintiff in propria persona. This Motion is governed by the requirements of Eastern District of California Local Rule 182(d), which provides that an attorney may not withdraw, leaving the client in propria persona, absent a noticed motion, appropriate affidavits, notice to the client and all other parties who have appeared, and compliance with the Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of California. California Rule of Professional Conduct 1.16(b)(10) permits a member of the State Bar to seek to withdraw from representation when “[t]he lawyer believes in good faith . . . that the tribunal will find…