Twitter - Can a Lawyer Stop Elon Musk?

 "'I wish we had done better with lots of things,' [Chief Executive Officer Parag] Agrawal said during the call [an impromptu kind of town meeting with all Twitter employees]." - Insider, April 29, 2022.

Earlier the media reported that the chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde wept at a meeting with her people. She reflected that the future was so uncertain. She also expressed her extreme pride in what they had accomplished.

The mood among both the leadership and rank-and-file at Twitter seems to be grief. The profound kind when something big is about be lost - forever. Decades ago so many Gulf Oil employees - present and past - experienced exactly that when Chevron acquired it. Intuitively we knew Our Family of Orange had been wiped out. 

Although the details are different, what is going on at Twitter and the new film "Memory" could be this: The sense that the very very rich are unstoppable and beyond the norms of society and even justice. 

Already Musk has violated the terms of the purchase agreement. That banned disparaging Twitter. And he's doing just that. Targets have included those in the legal department. Here is Law and More's analysis of that development.

Is any lawyer skilled and bold enough to contend that Musk's behavior has made the contract null and void? And the deal is put on-hold. Given the slow-moving process the law is, Twitter could return to being Twitter.

Connect with Editor-in-Chief Jane Genova at janegenova374@gmail.com.