Former US attorney for Iraq requests $5 million legal fee ruling from Washington
F-16 jets during a flyby over Nationals Park stadium in Washington, DC on March 30, 2023
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – A well-known lawyer from Washington, D.C., who represented Iraq following the US invasion in 2003, requested a verdict from a federal court for over $5.5 million in legal costs that he claims he was never paid.
After Iraq did not respond to his complaint for fees, Timothy Mills, a former partner at the legal firm now known as Squire Patton Boggs, requested on Monday that a federal judge in Washington impose a default judgment against it, according to Reuters.
In October 2022, Mills filed a lawsuit against the Iraqi Ministry of Justice, claiming that the Iraqi government had not paid for his legal services between March 2018 and September 2021.
Mills defended Iraq in court cases involving the government and the US defense contractor, Wye Oak Technologies, whose CEO was murdered in an attack while traveling to Baghdad in December 2004.
In September 2021, Mills and his firm resigned as Iraq’s legal advisors.