“He mentioned he’s retained some lawyers, ” Greenberg said. He flipped through some notes in front of him. “David Boies?” I asked. “He mentioned Boies, but there was someone else as well. Here it is, Charles Harder.” Harder was the pitbull attorney who, in an invasion of privacy case bankrolled by the billionaire Peter Thiel, had recently prevailed in shutting down the gossip news site Gawker.
