He already hired the best lawyers available.

What do you mean by his behavior changing if his net worth were more liquid? Are you suggesting he couldn't afford expensive lawyers because he couldn't get enough cash?

He has had no issue paying lawyers. The fundamental problem is that the case is dumb and without merit and he was always going to lose it. Expensive lawyers can't fix that, at least not against a counterparty who also has expensive lawyers.

Once you're spending $10 million on a case, you can find the best lawyers, and it's hard to get much additional meaningful work from just hiring more lawyers.

He was losing because he had a bad case, not because he had bad lawyers. The law was not on his side, and neither were the facts.

And it is not like Twitter doesn't have good and enough lawyers either. So the outcome between those is pretty much neutral. Which only leaves the facts and laws, which are on their side...

Even an army of the smartest lawyers cannot protect the dumbest client

Musk made the share sales months ago, you can find them on Bloomberg. Lawyers need to be in constant communication with their clients, but Musk's bizarre behavior this case is largely just because he's Musk. Look at his attempt to take Tesla private in 2018, look at the insane shit he tweets. He's a very smart leader who has accomplished incredible things (he may not be responsible for every line of code but leadership can be a lot more important, look at Microsoft under Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella), but he also has serious issues

I think you are overestimating how much money it would need to send a platoon of lawyers. It would relatively cheap thing for Elon.

> and go join Larry Ellison on his island for mojitos at sundown.

Of all his behaviour and stupidity here, I have never for a second believed he will just kick back and live the billionaire life. He’s a workaholic, and he loves Tesla, starship and more too much. Say what you will about his character and decision making, you can’t deny the guy works extremely hard and is devoted to making stuff better

he sure is dedicated, but I wouldn't say he makes stuff better

You think reusable rockets are not making stuff better overall for the space program?

Nah, they think Musk is a net negative to SpaceX. Which sounds likely to me.

Wait until we all travel around Mars in self driving Tesla's.

Presumably all with stage 3 cancer from the radiation on our way to a mandatory shift to pay off our several million dollar fare over the next 300 years of multigenerational indentured servitude.