Lawyers for Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of Theranos, are begging off defending her in a class-action fraud case, claiming that she hasn’t paid them for over a year.

Lawyers Stephen Neal, John Dwyer and Jeffrey Lombard — all of the Palo Alto-based Cooley law firm — asked earlier this week to withdraw from defending Holmes in the case in Arizona federal court.

“Given Ms. Holmes’s current financial situation, Cooley has no expectation that Ms. Holmes will ever pay it for its services as her counsel,” the lawyers wrote in a Monday motion. “Thus, it is unfair and unreasonable to require Cooley to continue representing Ms. Holmes.”

Holmes’ lawyers, who didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment, reported in their motion that the case has no trial date as yet and no scheduled hearings.

It could not be determined how much Holmes — a Silicon Valley wunderkind whose startup had once been valued at $9 billion — owes Cooley for its legal services.

The Mercury News of San Jose, California, which first reported on the lawyers’ motion, noted the case against Holmes also accuses her company and Walgreens, which had provided Theranos blood-testing services in Arizona and Palo Alto, of fraud.

The nine original plaintiffs in the class action are ex-Theranos customers, including a woman who claimed that Theranos’ inaccurate results had her testing positive for an autoimmune disease.

Theranos and Walgreens have both filed motions to remove themselves from the class action.

Separately, in a federal criminal case, Holmes and former Theranos president Sunny Balwani face 11 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

The pair has pleaded not guilty to those charges and to allegations that Theranos’ “miniLab” system, which used a few drops of blood from a finger-prick to conduct a wide range of tests, endangered the health and lives of customers.

The criminal case is set for trial on next July in San Jose federal court.

If found guilty, Holmes, who founded Theranos after dropping out of Stanford University at 19, and former boyfriend Balwani each face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000, plus restitution, for each individual count of wire fraud and conspiracy, according to the US Attorney’s office.