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Re:Elon’s Out by throwaway09223 on Saturday July 09, 2022 @06:19PM (#32039823)
You're talking about Musk pressuring Cooley to fire a lawyer who previously worked against him at the SEC. But the result was that Cooley told Musk no. Hardly a success story for Musk.

There's no shortage of law firms willing to go up against billionaires. Hell, there's no shortage of firms willing to go up against criminal enterprises like drug cartels.

The idea that Musk is somehow more threatening than the types that the US court system regularly puts under their thumb is simply laughable.

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Re:Elon’s Out by sroussey on Saturday July 09, 2022 @06:26PM (#32039890)
Cooley then lost business from Musk firms.
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Re:Elon’s Out by mustache_kimono on Saturday July 09, 2022 @07:01PM (#32040136)
Of course they said no. They'd never be able to get an attorney to come work for them again.

This Musk will ruin careers stuff is way, way overblown. If they lose his business, he wasn't worth working with in the first place.

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Re:Elon’s Out by throwaway09223 on Saturday July 09, 2022 @06:32PM (#32039946)
So what? This is business as usual for law firms. They will lose clients every time they take a case due to conflicts of interest and so on, even if everyone has a happy outcome.

What Musk did was petty and questionable, but it didn't fundamentally change anything for Cooley.

It's not a big deal.

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Re:Elon’s Out by rurp on Saturday July 09, 2022 @07:04PM (#32040157)
It's unlikely Musk expected Cooley to cave to his ridiculous demand. It's very likely the intended target for this action was every person who deals with Musk's future illegal actions.
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