{"id":466954,"date":"2023-01-06T13:45:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T13:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=466954"},"modified":"2023-01-06T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T13:55:57","slug":"twitter-hires-seattle-law-firm-that-elon-musk-previously-boycotted-and-criticized-for-thriving-on-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/twitter-hires-seattle-law-firm-that-elon-musk-previously-boycotted-and-criticized-for-thriving-on-corruption","title":{"rendered":"Twitter hires Seattle law firm that Elon Musk previously boycotted and criticized for &#8216;thriving on corruption&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is now owned by Elon Musk. Andrew Kelly\/Reuters Twitter is using a law firm that Elon Musk has previously condemned. Musk said nobody should use Perkins Coie and that the firm &#8220;thrives on corruption.&#8221; Perkins Coie is representing Twitter in a lawsuit filed by a far-right activist, per court filings. A law firm that Elon Musk has criticized several times is representing Twitter in a lawsuit, according to court documents filed on Wednesday that have been seen by Insider. Reuters first reported the news on Thursday. The Notice of Appearance showed that Perkins Coie, a law firm based in Seattle, is planning to defend Twitter and cofounder Jack Dorsey in a lawsuit filed by the far-right activist Laura Loomer ,who was locked out of her account in 2018 over &#8220;hateful&#8221; content, according to the complaint lodged in May. Perkins Coie has replaced Jenner &amp; Block, which withdrew from the case, per a court filing on December 27. Musk tweeted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has said no company should use Perkins Coie because it &#8220;thrives on corruption,&#8221; but Twitter has hired the law firm for a lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}