Venezuela’s highest court last week delivered welcome news to a U.S.-based attorney who has spent years battling Norton Rose Fulbright and its predecessor law firm in the South American country.

The Social Chamber of the Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal on June 21 ordered the preventative seizure of nearly $1.2 million in assets from Norton Rose Fulbright—the latest ruling in an employment dispute with attorney Omar Garcia Bolivar that has been tied up in the courts for nearly two decades.