Bill Cosby's former attorney sues comedian for more than $50,000 in unpaid legal fees

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• A former member of Bill Cosby's defense team is suing the comedian for more than $50,000 in unpaid legal fees.
• Cosby's current attorney says the claim arose from a "disagreement over the amount of legal fees charged" and that Cosby had offered to submit the dispute to mediation.
• Cosby was convicted in April of three counts of aggravated indecent assault. Sentencing is scheduled September 24.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former member of Bill Cosby's defense team is suing the 81-year-old comedian for more than $50,000 in unpaid legal fees.

The civil claim for failure to pay for legal services rendered was filed Tuesday by Philadelphia-based law firm Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis. It did not include the exact amount the firm is seeking for work done by attorney Samuel Silver from August 2017 through February.

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