Wake Up Call: Musk Told Cooley to Fire Ex-SEC Lawyer: Report

Jan. 18, 2022, 1:35 PM UTC

In today’s column, with inflation soaring, some law firms worry it could kill M&A deals; U.K. law firm partners say banks are no longer their top tier clients; pro bono attorneys should continue to use technology they were forced to adopt during the pandemic, a report says.

  • Leading off, Tesla CEO Elon Musk demanded in 2021 that Cooley fire an associate who had interviewed him when the lawyer worked earlier at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission. Musk told Cooley, which was representing Tesla in several matters at the time, that it would lose the electric-vehicle company’s business if it ...

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