Pablo Castro, the developer of one of the state’s largest planned Live Local Act projects, is looking for his fourth set of lawyers amid a legal tussle with his former partner.

Bilzin Sumberg attorneys Mitchell Widom, Raquel Fernandez and Michael Morgan moved to withdraw as counsel for the Spanish developer in his legal dispute with Laura Tauber, who sued Castro in March for allegedly forcing her out of The HueHub project and not compensating for her years of work.

Castro would have 45 days to find new representation if the motion were approved, according to filings in the Miami-Dade County Circuit Court.

“Irreconcilable differences have developed between Bilzin Sumberg and the defendants, which prevent Bilzin Sumberg from representing the defendants further in this matter,” the filing states.

The HueHub, a planned $880M seven-tower workforce housing project aimed at combatting Miami-Dade County's growing affordability crisis, secured zoning approval a year ago but has yet to break ground.

It's among the largest projects proposed under the Live Local Act, a state law that allows developers to exceed local height restrictions if they dedicate at least 40% of the units to residents making up to 120% of the area median income.

The developer landed an agreement in August 2025 to dedicate the majority of its units as fully furnished and at fixed rents for 10 years to Miami-Dade firefighters, police officers and county employees.

But the momentum has stalled since a demolition party in March following growing litigious turmoil surrounding the project and its lead developer. The troubles started with Tauber, who claimed she would be owed up to $150M for her work as a partner if the project ever came out of the ground.

Castro has denied Tauber's portrayal of her work on the project, claiming that she was only listed as a partner under the interpretation that she would raise and invest equity and share project costs, which he claims she never did.

Widom, Fernandez and Morgan, who did not respond to a request for comment, were Castro's third set of attorneys on the case against Tauber.

His first group of attorneys, Greenberg Traurig's Sheila Oretsky and Ariana Rubio, stepped down in March. Their replacement, Coffey Burlington's Robert Burlington and Kevin Kaplan, were replaced with the Bilzin Sumberg attorneys a month later.

The Monday morning filing marks the first time Castro didn't already have a new set of lawyers lined up.

Tauber and her attorneys called the motion a delay tactic. Later on Monday, her attorneys filed to oppose the motion to withdraw, claiming it is being used to dodge a deposition where Castro is expected to be questioned next week.

“This response is necessitated by the Defendants’ continued delay and bad-faith litigation tactics, who now unreasonably seek 45 days to retain their fourth law firm to defend them in this case that has only been pending for five months,” Tauber's representation, Kluger, Kaplan, Silverman, Katzen & Levine attorneys Alan Kluger, Steve Silverman and Madison Hauser, stated in the filing.

In Tauber's response, her lawyers state they have spent weeks attempting to set dates for depositions over the claim that Castro had destroyed evidence of Tauber's work on the project, but those requests were left unanswered.

That was until Widom called Kluger and asked to pause the case because an undisclosed construction lender had revoked its term sheet, meaning The HueHub project now has "much less value," Kluger claims Widom said in the phone call.

Castro has been pursuing a roughly $600M construction loan with a New York-based lender since last year, Bloomberg previously reported. The developer told The Real Deal in May that they planned to break ground in July — but that never happened.

When Kluger requested documentation to confirm the claim, Widom allegedly retreated. The next form of communication was Widom's request to withdraw from the case altogether.

Castro declined to comment on the withdrawal of his attorneys and the claims that the construction lender revoked its term sheet.

Castro is facing two additional lawsuits over the project. The first was from a former architect on the project who sued for lack of payment. The second was filed by the Miami Gardens Chamber of Commerce, alleging that Castro misappropriated trade secrets.

Castro filed motions to dismiss each lawsuit, but both were denied by the presiding judges.