The waiting game is over for the law firms that represented Facebook owner-wannabe Paul Ceglia.

The question of whether Facebook Inc. would sue Ceglia’s former attorneys has been hanging over the firms for at least two years, ever since it began to look like Ceglia’s case against the social media giant was an elaborate con. Facebook’s defense lawyers at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher eventually demolished Ceglia’s contract claims, amassing enough evidence of fraud to persuade federal prosecutors to indict Ceglia in 2012. And Gibson Dunn has shown time and again that it relishes turning the tables on its adversaries’ counsel.

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