Musk’s X Taps Morgan Lewis to Handle Twitter Execs’ Pay Suit

Another day, another lawsuit for Elon Musk’s litigators at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, which has emerged as a key defender of his business interests.

The technology titan’s X Corp. has once again turned to the law firm for outside counsel, this time in a lawsuit filed last week by four former executives seeking $128 million in severance pay after Musk terminated them upon his purchase of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter Inc.

Those individuals—all represented by Sidley Austin—include Twitter’s former chief legal and policy officer Vijaya Gadde and ex-general counsel Sean Edgett, as well as Parag ...