Elon Musk says Twitter staff 'error' led to 雇うing Perkins Coie 法律 会社／堅い
By David Thomas
Jan 6 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc CEO Elon Musk said in an email to Reuters on Friday that 雇うing 法律 会社／堅い Perkins Coie to defend the company in a California 連邦の 訴訟 this week was a mistake it would not make again.
Reuters 報告（する）／憶測d earlier that lawyers from Perkins Coie entered 法廷，裁判所 外見s for Twitter in the 事例／患者 on Wednesday even though Musk has 公然と非難するd the 会社／堅い on the social マスコミ 壇・綱領・公約, 含むing in a tweet last month 関係のある to its past work for former Democratic U.S. 大統領の 指名された人 Hillary Clinton.
Musk's email said 雇うing Perkins Coie was "an error on the part of a member of the Twitter team."
"Perkins will not be 代表するing Twitter on 未来 事例／患者s," he said.
He did not すぐに 答える／応じる to follow-up questions on Friday, 含むing whether Perkins Coie will stay on as counsel for Twitter in at least six other 訴訟s predating Musk's 所有権. A Perkins Coie spokesperson did not すぐに 答える／応じる to a request for comment.
Musk's finger-pointing follows months of 内部の 緊張s over Twitter's 合法的な staffing and 優先s since he acquired the company for $44 billion and took over as CEO in October.
Musk has 解雇する／砲火／射撃d Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's 合法的な 事件／事情／状勢s and 政策 officer, and other 上級の 従業員s as he 捜し出すs to undo what he has 非難するd as past 検閲 and 同志／支持者 bias at the company.
Twitter has also shaken up its outside 合法的な teams, with 弁護士／代理人／検事s from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan stepping in for other 会社／堅いs in several 事例／患者s.
Musk tweeted on Dec. 8 that Twitter "isn't using Perkins Coie" as outside counsel and 勧めるd other companies to ボイコット（する） the 会社／堅い. He sin gled out a former Perkins Coie lawyer, Michael Sussmann, who advised Clinton's 2016 大統領の （選挙などの）運動をする while at the 会社／堅い.
Sussmann was acquitted in May after 否定するing 連邦の 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s that he 誤って told the 連邦検察局 he was not working on Clinton's に代わって when he gave the 機関 趣旨d 証拠 of cyber links between the Trump Organization and a Russia-based bank.
"No company should use them until they make 修正するs for Sussmann´s 試みる／企てる to corrupt a 大統領の 選挙," Musk wrote in December, referring to Perkins Coie.
In May, Musk tweeted that Perkins Coie and another large 法律 会社／堅い were made up of "white-shoe lawyers" who "栄える on 汚職."
The 事例／患者 that Perkins Coie 調印するd on to for Twitter this week was brought last year by Laura Loomer, a far-権利 行動主義者 who was banned from the 場所／位置 in 2018.
The San Francisco 訴訟 （人命などを）奪う，主張するs social マスコミ 巨大（な）s, 会社／団体s and the U.S. 政府 conspired to "unlawfully censor 保守的な 発言する／表明するs and 干渉する with American 選挙s." Twitter and its former CEO Jack Dorsey have 否定するd the （人命などを）奪う，主張するs. (報告（する）／憶測ing by David Thomas in Chicago Editing by David Bario and Leslie Adler)
