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A lawsuit on what grounds? For sharing publicly available information? For saying, "I'm a human resources consultant: please hire me"? I wish Ms Novak wouldn't inflict people like this on attorneys. The recruiter owes no duty to the employee. The résumé was publicly available. The recruiter said nothing about the employee that the employee wasn't saying himself. It's not false or misleading. Truth is an *absolute* defense in the United States. There's no possibility of any case here. Additionally, the recruiter has a free speech right to exploit the employee's own speech to promote the recruiter's business, and a good change of making a consent defense: the employee freely chose to post the information for the specific purpose of getting it into the hands of recruiters and managers. That the employee forgot that his own manager might see information that he posted for the whole world to read is a stupid mistake -- but one for which the employee bears sole responsibility.