A court in Virginia is to hear arguments Monday over whether a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius deserves a share of the settlement MercExchange LLC reached with eBay Inc. last year in its long-running dispute over online auction patents.
W. Jackson Matney Jr., one of the original founders of MercExchange who joined Morgan Lewis in 2007, is moving ahead with a lawsuit against the company in Fairfax County in Virginia for breaching a deal he had cut that would have given him a percentage of the settlement. But MercExchange says Matney and another executive extorted the deal by threatening to “color” testimony they were going to give in a deposition in the eBay lawsuit if they weren’t properly “incentivized.”
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