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The real winners in Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk were the lawyers.

Both teams employed more than 50 lawyers! The legal bills for Musk alone may be as high as $100 million! I should have gone to law school because these guys charge as much as $2,500 an hour and M&A law is hilarious!

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