During the litigation, Kotick brought the firm Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro to defend them, but Patricia Glaser advised them to settle with Madvig for $200,000. Kotick refused, alleged by the arbitrator that "[he] would not be extorted and that [he] would ruin the Plaintiff and her attorney and see to it that Ms. Madvig would never work again." After hiring a new firm, Cove eventually settled with Madvig for $200,000 and an additional $475,000 for her legal fees. Kotick then became involved in further litigation with Glaser's firm as he only paid them $200,000 for their legal services when Glaser stated the full amount was for more than $1 million.
