ConnectU Counsel Claims "$65 Million" Facebook Settlement
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, the law firm that represented ConnectU and the Winklevoss brothers in their protracted lawsuit against Facebook that ended in settlement last April, has claimed in a marketing brochure for the firm that the amount of the settlement totaled “$65 million,” according to Law.com.
The disclosure was “apparently inadvertent.”
ConnectU, founded by twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss along with Harvard classmate Divya Narendra, originally filed suit against Facebook in 2004, claiming that Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow Facebook co-founders (also Harvard classmates) essentially stole the idea and initial code from ConnectU, then called HarvardConnection, and instead launched their own site, at the time called TheFacebook. However, the suit was eventually dismissed on a technicality, and nothing much more came of it.
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