The icing on the cake would be if Lab_Rat hired the same lawyer that dreamed up the whole bona-fide-shares-of-the-company-swapped-for-fixed-contracts-and-occasional-bonuses coercion switcheroo.

Lab_Rat, for our amusement, is it the same lawyer?  Doubtless paid by us in the first instance (i.e. to re-work our contracts and strip our rights away) and now being paid by us to fight a suit based on the first piece of work.  I believe they call that double-dipping.