Alex Jones in December 2018. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM.

InfoWars host Alex Jones, who is battling two defamation lawsuits from relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, has a new Connecticut attorney.

After his former counsel, Norm Pattis, withdrew representation in early May, Jones, who is based in Austin, Texas, retained Jay Marshall Wolman of the Randazza Legal Group.

Pattis gave no reason for withdrawing 14 months into the job. He had replaced Wolman as Jones' attorney, but now the first attorney has returned to the role.

Citing the widespread public interest in the litigation, Randazza Legal Group declined to comment.

"These cases involving Alex Jones have had far too much of a media circus atmosphere to them," the law firm wrote in a statement. "For the sake of our client, professionalism toward the tribunal, compassion toward the plaintiffs, and courtesy toward opposing counsel, we prefer not to try any of these matters in the press. Accordingly, no RLG attorneys or staff will make any comments about Mr. Jones' matters in the press until further notice."

No one from InfoWars responded to a request for comment Monday.

The two cases—Lafferty v. Jones and Sherlach v. Jones—are pending on the Waterbury Superior Court complex litigation docket.

Erica Lafferty was the daughter of Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung, and William Sherlach was married to school psychologist Mary Sherlach. The women were among 26 individuals—20 students and six educators—killed in the December 2012 school shooting.

Jones has walked back comments in which he said the shooting was a hoax and that the victims were "crisis actors" working at the direction of the federal government.

Representing the plaintiff families are attorneys from Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder in Bridgeport, who didn't respond to a request for comment.

New direction?

Meanwhile, University of Connecticut School of Law professor Leslie Levin, who's not involved in the litigation, Monday said the switch in attorneys might also signal other changes.

"It is always possible that strategy could change, to some extent, when new counsel comes in," Levin said. "It's always possible they will want to go after different witnesses, for example."

Levin continued: "I don't know if there was conflict between Mr. Jones and Mr. Pattis in the way the litigation was being run and whether Mr. Jones feels he'd have more latitude to behave as he wants in now being represented by Mr. Wolman."

Richard Kay, also a professor of law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, said Monday, "Usually it [a change in attorneys] means a client isn't satisfied with the strategy and the lawyer is not willing to change the strategy to satisfy his client. It happens sometimes. I assume the new attorney has gotten on the same page as the client."

The Lafferty lawsuit called Jones one of "the most prolific" fabricators of conspiracy theories.

Wolman, according to the biography on his website, is a civil litigator whose practice includes the representation of employers and employees in workplace disputes. He has also, his biography says, worked on copyright infringement actions, products liability cases and defamation and First Amendment claims.

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