Elon Musk Proves His Commitment To New Strategies By Hiring A 4th Year Lawyer To Head The Legal Side Of Twitter

It has been reported that Elon Musk stans have been photographed asking Deep Thought to explain how this makes sense.

twitter-gfdd804df4_1920In today’s episode of Twitter is a legitimate company that isn’t currently being run by a manchild™ King Twit made a big boy decision and hired a lawyer to represent him. That much is to be expected — making 4D chess moves like firing employees with multi-million severance contracts brings with it legal hurdles best navigated by a JD or several. Whoever was in the position of hiring started off on the good foot; the hire is from Skadden, a well known and reputable Biglaw firm. The rest? Well…

Twitter Inc. has hired former Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom associate Adeeb Sahar for a top legal job as the company grapples with a growing list of legal liabilities, including a lawsuit filed Monday by its former legal chief.

Sahar is Twitter’s new global head of commercial, corporate, and international law after working in Skadden’s office in Palo Alto, Calif., where he spent nearly four years after joining the law firm as a summer associate in 2018.

Oh that seems lovely and quite the job opportuni….2018!? They gave the top legal position to a 4th year? You — yeah you reading this. I want you to think about what your 4th year of practice was like. Now imagine if you were running the legal helm of a $44B (now $20B after the devaluation effects of being run by an incompetent CEO) organization. Want advice on a legal matter? You presumably have to go outside of the company for advice. Why? Good luck navigating the salt if the more experienced lawyers on your team got skipped over for some fresh JD on their 4th year out. Don’t get me wrong, this is an amazing resume line for Adeeb — power to them — but what person in their right mind would pick a lawyer with this green of a thumb? It’s like if Elon heard that they called 4th year students in high school seniors and thought that it meant Sahar, by misapplied transitive property, was a senior attorney.

Again, this isn’t meant to deny Adeeb their laurels. I’d even go so far to say that it is worth mentioning them:

At Skadden, Sahar was part of a team of lawyers that advised Twitter’s billionaire leader Elon Musk on his $44 billion acquisition of the San Francisco-based social media company last year, according to legal filings…Sahar was credited for being part of a team that aided Musk in restructuring Twitter, according to a LinkedIn post last week by Suzanne Dang, a purchasing director at Musk-controlled Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

That said, the situation still reads as odd? Was he the most senior of this successful team? If so, that is stellar in its own right. But if he wasn’t, did all of the other lawyers with seniority on the team pass over the opportunity? Were there no partners willing to represent Elon & Co? I know he’s a blue checked liability, but come on, even Trump can score partner-tier counsel. I’d say I expect more from Elon, but this is about on par with the types of decisions he makes considering his Elden Ring builds. TWO MEDIUM SHIELDS?

Twitter Hires Skadden Lawyer as Musk Tackles Litigation (2) [Bloomberg]

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.  He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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