In April, when DLA Piper agreed to take on case brought by Paul Ceglia, a businessman from upstate New York claiming to own 84 percent of Facebook, DLA partner Robert Brownlie said the firm “would not have gotten involved if we had any doubts about the facts or evidence in the case.” The firm’s appearance on Ceglia’s behalf, along with new evidence DLA included in a 25-page amended complaint, lent the suit an instant aura of credibility.
Things have changed. On Tuesday DLA and Buffalo-based Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman filed a notice of substitution of counsel in Buffalo federal district court, bidding the Ceglia matter goodbye. Ceglia’s new lawyer is Jeffrey Lake, of the tiny Lake firm in San Diego.
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