November 13, 2025
Jenner & Block LLP and its former client Sierra Leone have resolved their fight over unpaid legal fees and allegedly fraudulent overbilling in the nation's underlying dispute with its iron ore mining concessionaire Gerald International Ltd., according to a minute order issued Thursday in D.C. federal court.
March 21, 2025
Jenner & Block LLP on Thursday urged a D.C. federal judge to nix Sierra Leone's counterclaim accusing the firm of fraud as it looks to collect some $8 million from the country in unpaid legal fees, saying the claim is improper in a breach of contract suit.
February 27, 2025
Facing an $8 million fee suit pending in D.C. federal court, the Republic of Sierra Leone on Thursday brought counterclaims accusing its former counsel from Jenner & Block LLP of fraudulently overbilling for work the firm did on its behalf between 2019 and 2022.
January 24, 2025
A District of Columbia federal judge denied Sierra Leone's bid to escape a lawsuit alleging it owes Jenner & Block LLP $8 million in fees, saying the nation's arguments that it is immune from the litigation is belied by a contract term that specifically gave U.S. courts jurisdiction over disputes.
March 27, 2023
Jenner & Block LLP is fighting the Republic of Sierra Leone's bid to dismiss a case over allegedly unpaid legal fees, arguing that none of Sierra Leone's "buckshot attacks" on its complaint show how it failed to meet the pleading requirements.
February 21, 2023
Sierra Leone is asking to dismiss Jenner & Block LLP's lawsuit seeking $8.1 million in disputed legal fees, saying it paid the millions required under a flat-fee agreement and the District of Columbia federal court doesn't have jurisdiction over claims outside the contract because of the West African nation's sovereign immunity.
December 16, 2022
Jenner & Block LLP has sued the Republic of Sierra Leone in a bid to collect $8 million in legal fees it says it's owed after representing the African nation in a major mining dispute with metal trading giant Gerald International Ltd.