Remember Debra Opri? You know, the high profile Los Angeles attorney who worked for six months to get baby daddy Larry Birkhead’s house in order so he could present that aw shucks country boy image to the public as they fought Howard K. Stern for custody of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby Dannielynn?

He got the baby, but after all the work Opri did, Birkhead refused to pay her fee. Opri sued him and sought to compel arbitration of the fee dispute. Larry Birkhead said they did not have a valid agreement to arbitrate. The court denied arbitration and on appeal, the California Second Appellate District Court agreed.

Now the issue will go to trail. Is Ms. Opri upset? Nope!

In a telephone interview today Ms. Opri said that the passage of time waiting for the decision to go to trial has been well spent. She said, America no longer sees the fair haired country boy they once did.

Ms. Opri intends upon going to the finish line against Birkhead and there will be no settlement and “all dirty laundry will be aired”. She said she has happily been preparing for trial for two years, expects a positive outcome and that Birkhead will realize that he should have simply just paid his bill.

Debra Opri wishes Anna Nicole were alive today. She thinks if she was that Anna would have cleaned up her act and cleaned house of all those who were around her.

Ms. Opri is not letting any grass grow under her feet either. She is representing Liza Marquez in a suit against former boyfriend and father of her two children, “CSI Miami” star David Caruso.