Opinion
03-1157
Opinion Delivered November 20, 2003
APPEAL ERROR — MOTION TO WITHDRAW AS COUNSEL — PENDING. — Counsel for appellant was directed to attempt to contact appellant and to inform her that she had thirty days in which to obtain substitute counsel and that her failure to do so might result in her appeal being dismissed; if, at the end of the thirty-day period, the attorney for appellant had not been contacted by his client or appellant has not otherwise made arrangements to proceed with her appeal, counsel's motion to withdraw as counsel would be granted.
Ex Parte Motion to Allow Filing Without a Fee; Motion to Withdraw as Counsel pending.
Kenneth S. Gallant, for appellant.
No response.
The motion by Kenneth S. Gallant, of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law Legal Aid Clinic, attorney for appellant, requesting that the filing fee in this matter be waived, was denied on November 6, 2003. On that date, counsel filed the record in this matter and paid the $100.00 filing fee.
[1] Counsel for appellant is directed to attempt to contact appellant at her last known or best address, informing her that she has thirty days from the date of this per curiam to obtain substitute counsel and her failure to do so may result in her appeal being dismissed. If, at the end of the thirty-day period, the attorney for appellant has not been contacted by his client or the appellant has not otherwise made arrangements to proceed with her appeal, counsel's motion to withdraw as counsel will be granted. Ark. R. Civ. P. 64.