In response to a former associate’s lawsuit over bonuses, Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel is countering that its associate bonuses are discretionary, and the credits it uses to calculate bonuses don’t amount to “tangible” property.

Ryan Leonard’s suit, filed in May 2016, alleges that partners at Obermayer Rebmann, where he worked from 2008 to 2014, counted hours differently when billing clients than it did for calculating bonuses. That led to both unfair billing and unfair bonuses, the suit alleged.