Lil Wayne's Ex-Lawyer Wants $20 Million Lawsuit Filed Against Him Dismissed

Lil Wayne’s former lawyer is back in court demanding the $20 million lawsuit filed by the rapper be dismissed, saying he did nothing wrong.

According to court documents obtained by The Blast, Wayne’s former lawyer, Ronald Sweeney, is attempting to shut down Wayne’s legal malpractice lawsuit.

Wayne is suing Sweeney accusing him of taking a higher than industry standard commission and screwing him over on deals.

In newly filed docs, Sweeney says Wayne has recently tried to argue because Sweeney’s law license was suspended for a brief period of time (which the lawyer says was due to “technical reasons”), that he committed fraud.

Sweeney says even if his license was suspended in one state for a time, he argues it caused no harm to Wayne. He says “Rather, Sweeney successfully represented Carter for more than 13 years.”

He is demanding the judge dismiss the entire $20 million case immediately.

Earlier this year, Lil Wayne sued Sweeney seeking $20 million in damages. He accused his lawyer of overcharging him and taking a 10 percent cut of all his deals instead of the industry standard of 5 percent.

Wayne claimed Sweeney tried to get greedy towards the end and take an additional 10 percent off all his Young Money profits but he shut that down. He also claimed Sweeney didn’t even represent him in the battle with Birdman over the ‘Carter V’, saying he brought in outside counsel, who Wayne said took a 23 percent cut of his Cash Money settlement and 15 percent cut of a separate deal with Universal Music.

Sweeney, who represented the rapper from 2005 until 2018, fired back arguing he made Wayne upwards of a hundred million while they worked together.

The lawyer believed the lawsuit filed by Wayne is nothing more than a “campaign by Carter’s other advisors to avoid” paying him the money owed.

He also claimed to have made himself available 24 hours a day for Wayne and traveled to him for legal work. Sweeney asked the court to dismiss the case.

The case is ongoing.