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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 14, 2023

Former state Sen. Brian Kelsey, R-Germantown, is replacing his legal team after a federal judge rejected his motion to vacate his guilty plea to campaign finance crimes, the Tennessee Journal reports. In a court filing on Wednesday, Kelsey said he has hired J. Alex Little and Zachary Lawson of Burr & Forman. They replace Paul Bruno, David Rivera, Jerry Martin and David Warrington. The move comes amid what Kelsey’s new lawyers called a “deterioration of attorney-client relationships.” The new team also says they are looking at the potential for litigation against prior counsel. Little and Lawson asked a judge overseeing the case to delay Kelsey’s sentencing date by at least a month so they can get up to speed on the case.