Holland & Knight is furiously trying to get paid $815,000 it is owed in legal fees, but its former clients are fighting the charging lien equally as hard.

The law firm obtained the lien last year against two Italian companies, Golden Dawn Corp. and Markwood Investments Ltd..

Holland & Knight attorneys Jose Casal, Alex Gonzalez, Brett Barfield and Joaquin Alemany in Miami represented the two companies in a complex bankruptcy case before U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurel Isicoff in Miami.