It's worth revisiting because lawyers from the US Department of Justice, who allege that Apple conspired with a cabal of big publishing houses to raise ebook prices in 2010, somehow failed to anticipate the mismatch that would occur when Snyder questioned Thomas Turvey, Google's director of strategic partnerships. Turvey got drubbed on the witness stand and the prosecution's lawyers should have seen it coming. Snyder is not yet the household name that David Boies or Alan Dershowitz are, but he's speeding in that direction.

"So now you said 'likely' told. Do you recall just using those words?" Snyder, 50, has won big cases for Cablevision, Warner Bros. Music Group, and Capital One Financial Corp. He's become a favorite in the entertainment industry and represents such marquee clients as Bob Dylan, Jerry Seinfeld, and The Rolling Stones. He told The Hollywood Reporter in 2011 that celebrities favor "a warrior who thinks outside the box." Snyder, who works for mega law firm Gibson Dunn, has also proven himself in the tech sector. As counsel to Facebook and the company's founder Mark Zuckerberg, Snyder challenged the authenticity of the emails that businessman Paul Ceglia alleged were written to him by Zuckerberg, emails Ceglia claimed proved he owned 84 percent of Facebook. Instead of becoming a billionaire, he was arrested last year and charged with fabricating evidence.

Turvey's isn't the first testimony that Snyder has stomped into ooze And Turvey's isn't the first testimony that Snyder has stomped into ooze. After he questioned one Dish executive last year and accused her of "double-deleting" emails in an attempt to destroy evidence the woman broke down in tears, according to a story in the New York Post. After yelling at Snyder she poked his father, who happened to be in court that day, and told him "I hope you're proud of your son." Snyder accused her of pushing his father and threatened to call the police, which if he did might have meant a mistrial. The cops were not summoned and Cablevision got its money.

The confrontation played out like a scene from 'Law and Order'The confrontation played out like a scene from Law and Order. On TV a witness will often crack under questioning and spill important info. In real life, it rarely plays out that way. Yet, that's exactly what happened to Turvey. Snyder bombarded Turvey with questions about the meetings in which the publishers supposedly gave him this info and Turvey couldn't provide any details: no names, dates, or places. Snyder kept up the pressure and eventually Turvey became so rattled that he started to change his story from one minute to the next.