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Securities,
Civil Litigation

Sep. 30, 2025

Plaintiffs move to disqualify Musk's lead counsel in Twitter securities case

Shareholders suing Elon Musk over 2022 tweets about his Twitter acquisition argue Quinn Emanuel partner Alex Spiro's role as both trial counsel and firsthand witness would confuse a jury and violate ethical rules.

Plaintiffs move to disqualify Musk's lead counsel in Twitter securities case
Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP

While Elon Musk's attorneys are asking a San Francisco federal judge to dismiss a securities class action over allegations that a series of May 2022 tweets caused Twitter Inc.'s value to plunge before its acquisition, attorneys for the plaintiffs filed a motion to disqualify Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Alex Spiro from the case.

In a Friday motion, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP senior associate Caroline A. Yuen and Bottini & Bottini Inc. part...

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