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(Reuters) - If you thought white-collar fee advancement litigation was a boring matter of contract interpretation, you'll need to revise your thinking in light of a dispute between Steven Schwartz, a onetime general counsel now facing U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission accusations of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and Schwartz’s former employer, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.
Cognizant has sued one of the law firms representing Schwartz for fraudulently inflating its bills by millions of dollars. But that’s not all. We’ve also got an anonymous whistleblower with tales of trumped-up trips to India and skimming from vendor bills. We have Cognizant investigators who were hired to approach Schwartz’s lawyers and their staff for secret interviews. We have an alleged turncoat from deep inside the defense camp. We even have allegations from Schwartz that Cognizant’s conduct in the fee fight has compromised his constitutional rights in the DOJ criminal case.
This, folks, is not your...
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