Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. says its former top attorney’s legal bills are so unreasonable they raise questions of “fraudulent billing” and a court should not order the company to pay them without further investigation.
The company’s former chief legal officer Steven E. Schwartz argues that Cognizant is bound by an indemnity agreement to pay his legal bills, but has refused to do so.
Schwartz and the company’s former president, Gordon Coburn, were indicted by the Justice Department and investigated by the Securities Exchange Commission for allegedly facilitating a $2 million bribe to a government official in India in 2014. Schwartz ...
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