A Manhattan lawyer may face sanctions for failing to produce documents related to the whereabouts of his corporate client after nearly a year of “remarkably uninformative” and “implausible” discovery responses, a magistrate judge has ruled.

Meanwhile, the lawyer, Mintz & Fraade partner Alan Fraade, was allowed to withdraw as counsel to Panorama TV after claiming the company had suddenly become “unresponsive” and stopped cooperating, thereby placing him in “an untenable position.”