March 27, 2014
The Am Law Litigation Daily named Orin Snyder as Litigator of the Week for his victory for Facebook and founder Mark Zuckerberg in securing the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by plaintiff Paul Ceglia, who claimed that he was entitled to a 50 percent stake in the company. On March 25, 2014, a U.S. federal judge adopted a federal magistrate judge’s ruling issued last year that credited the overwhelming forgery evidence amassed by Gibson Dunn and declaring Ceglia’s lawsuit a fraud. The profile was published on March 27, 2014.