You have to have either a death wish or serious faith in a former wood pellet salesman from upstate New York to jump into Paul Ceglia's Facebook ownership case at this point.
As we've reported, exhaustively, Ceglia's claim to own half of Mark Zuckerberg's stake in the soon-to-be-public social media behemoth rests on a contested 2003 contract Zuckerberg signed when he worked on some software code for Ceglia as a Harvard undergraduate. Faced with the ruthless defense mounted by Facebook's lawyers at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, at least four firms - including DLA Piper -- have withdrawn from Ceglia's team. Ceglia himself has been hit with a $5,000 sanction for discovery failures and is on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars in Gibson, Dunn fees. Gibson, Dunn, moreover, has made it pretty clear that it's scrutinizing Ceglia's lawyers for representing the validity of a contract Facebook considers an outright fraud.
None of that has dissuaded Sanford Dumain, the chairman of Milberg. "We took a good hard look at all of the information available, including evidence in Mr. Ceglia's favor, and we believe he deserves to have his day in court," Dumain said in a statement. "We look forward to examining records from computers that Mr. Zuckerberg used when he was a freshman at Harvard and other records that will help answer questions about the ownership of Facebook. We hope that the court will rule that the time has come for that process to begin."
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Source: newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com
By: Allison Frankel
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