Mr Ceglia was afterwards held by a federal court to have faked some documentation. In the suit against DLA and other smaller firms and individual lawyers who represented Mr Ceglia, Facebook and Mr Zuckerberg allege that they ‘conspired to file and prosecute a fraudulent lawsuit … based on fabricated evidence, for the purpose of extorting a lucrative and unwarranted settlement’. 

Baseless

Peter S Pantaleo, DLA’s general counsel, said: ‘This is an entirely baseless lawsuit that has been filed as a tactic to intimidate lawyers from bringing litigation against Facebook.’ Source: ABA