Monday, February 25, 2013

Tampa Radio: Todd ‘MJ’ Schnitt Hires New Attorney

Todd Schnitt
Radio host Todd "MJ" Schnitt fired his attorneys, C. Phillip Campbell and Jonathan J. Ellis, on Thursday in the midst of his quest for a new defamation trial against radio show rival Bubba the Love Sponge Clem.

Instead, lawyer Wil Florin said he will file a motion in court Friday to begin representing Schnitt and his wife, Michelle.  Florin is no stranger to media attention, his client list includes Hulk Hogan, reports the Tampa Bay Times.

His decision comes in the midst of a flurry of legal activity in the wake of the first trial, a loss for Schnitt that ended with accusations that Clem's attorneys hatched a DUI setup plot involving a young female paralegal.

Fired: Att. Campbell
J. Todd Timmerman, a managing partner at Campbell's firm of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, released this statement: "We continue to believe in the Schnitts' causes of action and hope that they are ultimately able to bring an end to the attacks on them personally and their personal reputations in this community."

On Jan. 30, jurors found that Clem did not defame the Schnitts with a litany of statements he has made about them over the years.

But the verdict did not put an end to a case already years in the making. A week before the verdict, Campbell was arrested in Tampa on a DUI charge while driving a car that belonged to Melissa Personius, a paralegal for Adams & Diaco, the firm representing Clem.

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