Fee Earned

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (Senior Judge Lamberth) granted a default judgment to a law firm that had sued the Republic of Iraq for unpaid fees

Mills Law Group (“MLG”) has represented the Republic of Iraq in its longstanding litigation against Wye Oak Technologies, Inc. before this Court. See Wye Oak Tech., Inc. v. Republic of Iraq, No. 1:10-cv-1182-RCL, 2019 WL 4044046 (D.D.C. Aug. 27, 2019) (“Wye Oak I”). In this action, MLG seeks payment of attorney’s fees owed for services it provided to Iraq in Wye Oak I. MLG has sued both Iraq and Iraq’s Ministry of Justice (“MoJ”) for payment of the twenty-five invoices it has sent Iraq. MLG has complied with the service provisions of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) and moved for default judgment. For the reasons that follow, the Court will grant MLG’s motion.

(Mike Frisch)