Broke Lindsay Lohan takes her lawyer for dinner... but did he bill her?

After a brief appearance in court, Lindsay Lohan opted to unwind over dinner at a Hollywood restaurant with her mother and new lawyer.
The troubled actress looked puffy faced as she left Dan Tana's with her attorney Mark Heller in tow on Wednesday night.
It's unclear if Lindsay - who is in financial dire straits - picked up the dinner check or if she would be later billed for his time.
Her mother Dina also tagged along for the evening.
The 26-year-old swapped her demure court outfit for thigh-high leather boots, fur-trimmed jacket, fedora hat and short dress.

After court: Lindsay Lohan had dinner at LA restaurant Dan Tanas with her mother Dina and new lawyer Mark Heller on Wednesday nigth

Showing the strain: The star looked on edge after her day at court

She earlier appeared in court for the first time in nearly a year. Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner shook her head when she saw Lohan seated with her attorney, just months after the judge had warned the Liz and Dick star to grow up and stay out of trouble.

 

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The actress was required to attend the pretrial hearing involving three misdemeanor counts filed after a car crash last summer. Lohan has pleaded not guilty to lying to police, reckless driving and obstructing officers from performing their duties.
Sautner previously sent her to jail, placed her under house arrest and forced her to perform morgue cleanup duty in another case.
Sautner warned Lohan that she could face jail time for a possible probation violation, even if she is acquitted of the counts filed after her sports car crashed into a dump truck.

Bloated: The 26-year-old looked worn and puffy-faced

Lindsay's entourage: The actress' mother and new lawyer

Lohan was on probation at the time of the wreck and could be sentenced to 245 days in jail if a judge determines her actions in the crash were a violation of her sentence in a theft case.
Sautner, however, won't be handling Lohan's upcoming case. The judge said she is retiring before the next court hearing on March 1. Lohan will not be required to attend that hearing. Lohan's new trial date is March 18.
Lohan was accompanied to court by her new attorney, Mark Heller, who said he wanted to get the case resolved as quickly as possible.
The judge quipped that it would only solve her legal trouble 'on this coast' - a reference to her two arrests in New York since being released from supervised probation in Los Angeles in March. No charges have been filed in those cases.

Another hearing: Lindsay at an LAX pre-trial hearing on Wednesday

Heller, a New York attorney, was granted permission to handle Lohan's California cases. He said he was meeting with prosecutors to determine how to proceed.
Sautner gave him more time by delaying the trial but said, 'This is not the most complex case we've ever seen.'
She spoke only briefly to confirm that she was switching attorneys and no longer wanted her longtime lawyer, Shawn Holley, to represent her.
Meanwhile, Lindsay'welcomed a new addition to her family as her estranged father Michael's girlfriend Kate Major, 29, gave birth to a son.
A source told gossip website TMZ.com that the couple have called the baby Landon Major Lohan and he was born in a Florida hospital at 11.39 am, just hours after Lohan's court hearing.

Landon, who was previously reported to have been conceived while his mother had a restraining order against Michael, 52, meaning it was illegal for them to spend any time together - weighted in at 19 3/4 inches, 7 lbs. 5 oz.
A spokesperson for the family said they are all doing great.