Elon Musk
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Elon Musk Is Having A Very Litigious Week
Between threatening Facebook and suing Wachtell, the Chief Twit is pretty active. We also talk about the end of the Supreme Court Term and the struggles in bar prep.
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Elon Musk Sues Wachtell For Being Better Lawyers
Wachtell helped Twitter force Musk to buy the company… now he wants that money back.
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* Lawyers don’t understand lawyer talk either. [Scientific American]
* While Elon Musk merely whines about Facebook, he actually filed a suit against Wachtell for the $90 million in fees the firm generated whipping Elon in the first place. Now, if he can just get back that $90 million… and then another $30 billion he’d be back where he started. [Law360]
* Law firm mergers aren’t crossing borders as much anymore, which is a pity since merging presents sort of an existential crisis for UK firms. [American Lawyer]
* Sarah Silverman sues AI developers for training on copyrighted material. Defense likely to argue “yeah, but our output still sort of sucks so there’s no harm.” [Reuters]
* Private credit on the rise as core Biglaw practice area, so remember this when the economy collapses in 10 years and everyone cites “private credit.” [Bloomberg Law News]
* “Testi-lied” is super clever! Also super gonna get you censured. [ABA Journal]
* Florida will stop recognizing certain state IDs. In case you needed a “full faith and credit” hypo for your exam. [Yahoo]
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Musk won’t cage fight Zuckerberg, so he’ll have to settle for getting whupped in court.
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Elon Musk Disappointed To Learn His Own Legal Agreements Still Apply To Him
Surprising no one at all.
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Elon Whines That He’ll Give Away NPR’s Twitter Account If They Won’t Start Using Twitter Again
From the That’s-not-going-to-win-anymore-trust Dept
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Actual Fake News: Elon Musk Threatens To Give Away News Source’s Account If They Don’t Behave
You got to hand it to a man who continues to make poor business decisions after halving his companies values and getting out-voted from leading it.
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* Twilight of the screamer: Attorneys who cling to the toxic Biglaw management style are losing out. Which probably makes them mad. [American Lawyer]
* The Third Circuit is going ahead with its humane filing deadline proposal over vocal dissent. If they hate it so much, they’re free to file a complaint… during regular business hours. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Trump will not testify in the E. Jean Carroll trial. A bold move to rely on that cross. [Law360]
* Will artificial intelligence finally end the billable hour? Probably not. [The Recorder]
* Elon Musk doesn’t really have a plan B if a new lawsuit successfully shuts down SpaceX’s half-baked launchpad. [Reuters]
* An update on Harvey, the AI tool deployed by Allen & Overy. [Business Today]
* John Quinn opines on AI and intellectual property. [Forbes]
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Elon Musk Legal Team Dropped The Dumbest Possible Excuse For Refusing A Deposition
Tesla is refusing to produce Musk to answer about his recorded safety claims because, they contend, what if he didn’t make them?
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Imagine blowing up a multibillion-dollar rocket being the SECOND dumbest thing you did on a Thursday.
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Microsoft Ditches Twitter From Its Ads Platform… So Elon Announces Plans To Sue Microsoft
Not how any of this works.
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Free speech… but not about me.
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Most people don’t have $100 million severance clauses, but they should figure out what they do have.
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* Regulators tell Elon Musk that he can’t start putting chips in people’s brains. GAH! Kill a monkey (or 1500) and suddenly the bureaucrats in Washington won’t let you do anything anymore. [Reuters]
* “Murdaugh Committed Murders As Career Spiraled” should be every attorney’s defense to a rough month… “I know I just considered taking my book of business to Jones Day, but I could’ve done a double murder.” [Law360]
* Biden administration plans to shift the liability for hacks to software manufacturers. This policy seems stupid but at least the president is trying to address the harms of massive data breaches instead of having public fever dreams about drag story time. America is broken. [Bloomberg Law News]
* After securing abortion restrictions, the new right-wing legal mission is advocating for strict voting restrictions. [ProPublica]
* Legal technology made the national news! Our coverage was better. [MSNBC]
* Let the battle for AI supremacy in Biglaw begin! [Legaltech News]
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Elon Musk Settlement Agreement As Unconstitutional Taking Is… A Theory
Musk’s legal team cites landmark Property case to undermine SEC settlement agreement.
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* ChatGPT “passes” law school exam. Which is not really how law school works, but cool. Congrats on your below market salary, debt-laden hellscape Johnny 5! [CBS]
* Lawyer threats avert robot legal apocalypse. I’m still pretty sure this is a stupid temper tantrum from lawyers who think they’re special snowflakes, but here we are. [NPR]
* Madison Square Garden’s lawyer ban may violate bias laws. Reality continues to lag about 4 weeks behind what I say. Are people not watching my podcast appearances when they come out live? Because we could speed all this up. [NBC]
* Paperwork is just not Elon Musk’s “style.” That’s cool and all, but you still need to do it before publicly announcing that you have done the paperwork. [Law360]
* Axiom opens law firm in Arizona thanks to regulatory changes. [ABA Journal]
* Craziest. Story. Ever. [Courthouse News Service]
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* Twitter who signed agreements committing them to private arbitration cannot pursue a class action against the company. Though the judge noted a few members of the proposed class had opted out of that agreement so the case lives on for the moment. Musk still unaware of the ruling because it’s buried under all the crap in the “For You” feed. [Reuters]
* The UK has blocked Scotland’s gender recognition law. Because post-Brexit the smartest thing England can do is further alienate Scotland and Northern Ireland. [CNN]
* FTC blows dusts off antitrust rule book like discovering ancient lore in an enchanted dungeon. Will address big box retailers getting massive discounts from manufacturers to maximize profit over smaller competitors. [Bloomberg]
* Tensions may be developing between Supreme Court justices. Amazing what happens when one wing of the Court fully abandons the law to be politicians. [The Atlantic]
* Over a third of legal workers hate their boss. Congratulations lawyers! I’d have expected a much higher number. [LegalCheek]