- Twitter hired a law firm that CEO Elon Musk publicly criticized last month and said "thrives on corruption."
- Musk told Reuters on Friday that hiring law firm Perkins Coie was "an error on the part of a member of the Twitter team."
Twitter recently $4 to represent the company in a lawsuit, and Musk has since offered an explanation for the confusing situation.
Musk $4 on Friday that Twitter's hiring of Seattle-based law firm Perkins Coie was "an error on the part of a member of the Twitter team."
"Perkins will not be representing Twitter on future cases," he said in an email to the news outlet.
The lawsuit at hand was brought by $4 against Twitter and co-founder Jack Dorsey. A self-described "proud Islamophobe," Loomer was booted from the platform in 2018 over "hateful" content after she called Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar "anti Jewish" and said Omar's Muslim faith supported homophobia and the abuse of women.
Musk has publicly denounced Perkins Coie on multiple occasions.
In May, when he announced he was building a litigation department at Tesla, he $4 he was not looking for "white-shoe lawyers like Perkins...who thrive on corruption."
Last month, Musk $4 Twitter wasn't using the law firm and that "no company should use them until they make amends for Sussman's attempt to corrupt a Presidential election."$4
Musk was referring to Michael Sussmann, a former Perkins Coie lawyer and onetime lawyer for the Hillary Clinton campaign, who was $4 in a meeting about former president Donald Trump's links to Russia during the 2016 presidential election. Sussmann was found $4 in May.
Perkins Coie is listed as counsel for Twitter in at least six other lawsuits that predate $4, according to Reuters. Musk didn't immediately respond when asked if Perkins Coie would continue to represent Twitter in those cases, Reuters said.