Under pressure from the judge originally assigned to the case, Sandy Litvack and Katzenberg’s attorney, Bert Fields, had negotiated a settlement in 1997 in which Disney agreed to pay Katzenberg $117 million, which Disney insisted was all that it owed. Katzenberg maintained that the company owed him more, plus interest. Disney and Katzenberg would have a trial before an arbitrator to determine the total.
