WordPress.com Owner Gets New General Counsel Amid Trademark Spat

Nov. 29, 2024, 10:05 AM UTC

Automattic Inc., a web development and software company that owns online publishing platform WordPress.com and other internet products, has named former Twitter Inc. in-house lawyer Jordan Hinkes its general counsel.

Hinkes is the latest former lawyer from Twitter, an Elon Musk-owned social media service now known as X, to take on a legal leadership role. Sam Altman’s Tools for Humanity Corp. recently brought on a pair of ex-Twitter executives, making one its new legal chief, and online dating giant Match Group Inc. hired former Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett as its top lawyer in September.

Hinkes, who joined ...

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