U.S Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal is leaving the bench for Facebook

Paul Grewal, a magistrate judge who was serving currently in San Jose federal court, will now be supposedly leaving his post there to join social networking giants Facebook as deputy general counsel in charge of litigation. Grewal, who confirmed the move to Recode the site that broke the news had been on the bench since 2010. He has been on the court's technology and patent committees.