The state of Missouri is pushing back on Littler Mendelson’s claims that the law firm is owed at least $1.5 million in financial incentives for opening a back-office operations center in Kansas City.

The Am Law 100 law firm and the state are at odds over how many jobs the firm was obligated to create in order to receive a total of $14 million in financial incentives from the Missouri Works Program. The San Francisco-founded firm has already received some of the $14 million but claims the state is withholding a portion of the incentives.