Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin attorneys are going to the movies.
It’s not every day Hollywood puts out a flick about a pending lawsuit, but with the release of “The Social Network,” the attorneys at the San Francisco firm decided a field trip was in order.
The firm is repping ConnectU's founders in an appeal pending before the Ninth Circuit. ConnectU’s founders claim Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea. The appeal is part of a high-stakes case over ownership and the enforceability of a settlement agreement – stuff that the attorney’s aren’t taking lightly.
But the film, which is thought to portray the firm’s clients in a favorable light, will serve as a bit of motivation for the team that’s worked long hours, said Howard Rice attorney Sean SeLegue.
“For us, the appeal is really serious business,” SeLegue said. “But this is kind of fun and interesting to have a case that is the subject of a movie.”
Howard Rice’s part of the case isn’t part of the plotline, so there aren’t any Hollywood actors playing SeLegue or partner Jerome Falk, an appellate specialist heading up the appeal work for ConnectU. But the earlier scorched-earth litigation that laid the groundwork for the pending appeal is part of the plotline.
So the firm bought all the tickets for a Wednesday night showing of the movie at the Metreon in S.F. All of the firm’s attorneys were invited, along with their guests and the team that worked on the appeal.
SeLegue confirmed ConnectU founders and twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss will not be joining them.
They also won’t get a bill for the outing.
“No, absolutely not,” SeLegue said after a hearty laugh. “That would be a great new practice area -- to get paid for watching movies.”
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