By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Assistant Managing Editor

After the judge threw out the lawsuit that Sam Lutfi had filed against Britney Spears and her parents, Lynne and Jamie, attorneys for the pop star decided that they would attempt to recoup legal fees incurred to defend themselves against Brit's one-time "manager," Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.

"Britney and her family have incurred at least a million dollars in fees defending themselves against the ridiculous allegations in Sam Lutfi's lawsuit," a source close to the situation tells Breaking Celebrity News exclusively. "This lawsuit was filed three years ago and has been an emotional drain on Britney and her parents, especially her mom, Lynne. Team Spears will formally ask the judge in the very near future to order Lutfi to pay their legal fees. They don't expect  that Sam will be able to pay for the judgment if it's awarded, but they still want to proceed anyway."

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, after hearing two and a half hours of arguments Thursday afternoon outside the presence of the jury, Judge Soussan Brugera dismissed the entire lawsuit against the Spears clan.

Lutfi was suing the Spears family for breach of contract, libel and defamation for comments Lynne made in a book about her life. Team Spears filed legal docs asking the judge to dismiss the lawsuit and said that Lutfi's claims of battery after Papa Spears allegedly punched him were bogus because, "Lutfi admitted that he was not marked or bruised by the touching and in fact, he felt like he was going to be fine."