Cat fight continues between Larry Birkhead and his former lawyer Debra Opri

Larry Birkhead’s former attorney Debra Opri filed a lawsuit against him Tuesday, claiming he didn’t pay his legal bills during a paternity dispute involving his and Anna Nicole’s baby. And boy, she sure does have a long list of random charges as we reported back in late March.

In the petition to the court, filed yesterday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Opri claims Larry Birkhead “has refused and continues to refuse to pay [her] for any of her services.” She now wants a judge to step in and force Larry to engage in binding arbitration.

In the document, Opri claims she “spent hundreds of hours working on Mr. Birkhead’s case,” which the documents say were at a cost of $475 an hour.

Larry Birkhead has issued a statment to TMZ in response to her filing saying:

Despite their filings, both Ms. Opri and her attorney received notification making them aware that I would be out of the state of California taking care of my daughter until the conclusion of an upcoming June custody hearing in the Bahamas.

Although at this time, the public is not aware of the unbelievable circumstances which led to me firing Ms. Opri, the only question at the end of the day is, how much money will Debra Opri be paying me? Thanks to the efforts of my Bahamas attorney, Emerick Knowles, I am fortunate enough now to be spending time with my daughter, Dannielynn.