Even by Lindsay Lohan’s standards, this is probably not the best decision.
She’s fired her long-standing attorney Shawn Holley, the legal-eagle who’s miraculously kept Lohan from serving serious jail time all these years.
Holley was allegedly canned when she was literally on her way to court to try and make a plea deal for lockdown rehab for the actress. According to sources, the Santa Monica City Attorney – who’s prosecuting Lohan for allegedly lying to cops after her June car crash – was willing keep the troubled starlet out of the slammer on the condition that she check into in-patient rehab for at least six months.
Lohan faces up to eight months in jail, and this doesn’t even include the additional jail time for her probation violation in the jewelry heist case. The judge allegedly could have agreed to end both cases if she went to rehab.
It is unclear why she fired Holley in the first place, but reports say the financially broke train wreck owes her former attorney $300,000.
“Lindsay owes Shawn [Holley] over $300K in legal fees and she hasn’t made any payments to her in over six months. Lindsay hadn’t paid anything for any of the work Shawn has done on her three new criminal charges of lying to cops, in connection with her car accident in Santa Monica last summer,” a source told RadarOnline.
The “Mean Girls” star is now represented by New York attorney Mark Heller.