Reply File Photo: HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - JULY 22: Britney Spears attends Sony Pictures' "Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood" Los Angeles Premiere on July 22, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images) LOS ANGELES, CA — Three weeks after Britney Spears' impassioned court appearance demanding an end to the conservatorship that has governed her life for 13 years, a Los Angeles judge Wednesday approved the singer's request to hire her own attorney rather than have one appointed for her. The decision by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny comes following the resignation of Spears' longtime court-appointed counsel, Samuel D. Ingham III. Ingham submitted court papers following last month's court hearing in which the singer blasted her family and virtually everyone involved in the conspiracy, saying she has been subjected to conditions akin to slavery and sex-trafficking.