It’s been less than six weeks since Facebook Inc. sought revenge on law firms representing Paul Ceglia, accusing DLA Piper, Milberg and others of backing an illegal scheme to usurp Mark Zuckerberg’s majority ownership stake in the social networking giant. The defendants have lawyered up, and now one of them is hoping to turn the tables yet again, saying it’s Facebook’s lawyers who are guilty of misconduct under New York law.
Paul Argentieri, one of Ceglia’s original and longest-serving attorneys in the underlying ownership case, filed an answer last month casting Ceglia and his lawyers as the victims in the litigation. To hear Argeniteri tell it, Facebook CEO Zuckerberg is the fraudster, and his lawyers in the ownership case at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher are the ones who abused the judicial process.
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