would getting a lawyer and filing a lawsuit against MT.gox help?
Don't waste your money in a lawyer, the only thing you can do is to wait and keep your finger crossed so that mtgox give back the bitcoins to their customers.
The main job of a lawyer is to make money from others, sometimes they win but in cases like this it is too difficult to do something because mtgox is located in japan and because at this time people don't know if mtgox has some bitcoins or nothing.
What I don't like about mtgox is that they don't update what is going on. Mtgox is like a nigerian scam office.