Britney Spears Lawyers Up

Posted Feb 21st 2007 5:20PM by TMZ Staff

Britney Spears has lawyered up again -- this time, she met with the lawyer who represented Mel Gibson in his DUI case.

Sources say Spears -- wearing a blonde wig -- went this morning to meet with Blair Berk, a prominent criminal defense lawyer whose roster of clients includes Lindsay Lohan, Halle Berry, Tracy Morgan and others.

We do not know why Spears chose to meet with Berk, although it's unlikely it has anything to do with her divorce. In her divorce case, Spears is repped by disso-queen Laura Wasser.

Spears could have met with Berk on a civil matter, as Berk handles both civil and criminal matters. Interestingly, Berk once repped Reese Witherspoon in her battle with hard-driving paparazzi. It's possible Spears went to Berk for similar reasons.

Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Britney Spears

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106. Hello???????? What are you thinking Britney??? You can't deal with any of your problems until you are completely drug free. How can you deal with anything while strungout on god knows what? STAY in rehab. Get off drugs, get counselling for your other emotional issues and THEN tackle all of that other crap thats going on - divorce, custody battle, "comeback" etc. You are useless to everyone, kids, family friends and yourself until you are drug free. Keep your ass in rehab and then focus on all of the other crap.

Posted at 12:08PM on Feb 25th 2007 by gail

107. Not even funny anymore; just pathetic.

BTW, I doubt her family could commit her even if they tried. The criteria for involuntary commitment is that you have to be an OBVIOUS threat to yourself or others (which doesn't mean partying, it means like knife-wielding) or to be so mentally ill that you are truly incapable of taking care of yourself (which doesn't mean shaving your head or breeding with Federline; it means thinking that you are the Queen of England and you can read people's thoughts kind of crazy)...very very difficult to prove.

Which is why I don't believe the claims that her family has put some "hold" on her accounts. If she is too sane to be committed, she is definitely sane enough to say what happens to her money.

Crazy? Definitely. Legally crazy? Not yet.

Posted at 12:16PM on Mar 1st 2007 by dragonlady

108. This just gets more crazy everyday!

Posted at 5:03PM on Mar 23rd 2007 by Christopher Clifford

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