Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy is owed more than $2.8m in unpaid bills by the now-defunct Lehman Brothers, reports the Am Law Daily.

Milbank has applied to represent the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Lehman bankruptcy case, a process which involves an exhaustive look at all of Milbank’s potential conflicts, including Milbank lawyers who have husbands, wives and domestic partners at Weil Gotshal & Manges, the law firm representing Lehman.