When social networking site Facebook settled a lawsuit with ConnectU, a social networking site Facebook creator Mark Zuckerburg worked on, the terms of the deal were supposed to stay secret. But thanks to one law firm’s overzealous PR department, the $65 million cat is out of the bag.
If the law firm of Quinn Emanuel, which bills itself as “the premier business litigation firm in the U.S.,” had a Facebook page, Wednesday’s status update might read something along the lines of “Quinn Emanuel is wishing it kept its mouth shut.”
That’s because the firm’s public relations department accidentally disclosed the terms of what was supposed to be a $65 million confidential settlement between social networking site Facebook and ConnectU, a social networking site developed at Harvard University.
