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Technology

Oct. 5, 2023

X Corp says Wachtell believes it is ‘exempt from rules’

Musk’s attorneys — Adrian Sawyer of Sawyer & Labar LLP plus Marc Dworsky and William T. Reid IV of Reid Collins & Tsai LLP — said the Wachtell firm was working against his interests and should not get to keep the money they were paid for that. They oppose a motion to compel arbitration over $90 million in fees.

X Corp says Wachtell believes it is ‘exempt from rules’
Judge Richard Ulmer Jr.

Attorneys for X Corp. fired back at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz, telling a San Francisco judge that the firm believes it is “exempt from rules of professional conduct,” and is attacking the character of CEO Elon Musk in a dispute over $90 million in fees.

The company’s attorneys filed the opposition brief in San Francisco Superior Court court in an effort to keep out of arbitration its claim that Wachtell must pay back the $90 mil...

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