Elon Musk has internal options for the new head of Twitter Inc.‘s legal department as he assembles a group of senior leaders.
Two deputy general counsel, James Baker and Tina Hwang, were poised to co-lead the department under a plan the former general counsel put in place before Musk fired him, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The plan by Sean Edgett, who had worked for Twitter since 2012, wasn’t implemented in the chaos following Musk’s takeover of the social media company two weeks ago and the mass layoffs he put in place, the three people said.
Alex Spiro, a litigation partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan who represented Musk in a legal battle that preceded the $44 billion takeover of the company, is for now filling the leadership vacuum. It’s unclear how long he’ll stay in the role. Twitter didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Baker, Twitter’s head of litigation, joined the company in 2020 after serving as the FBI’s general counsel. Hwang, who oversees product legal and intellectual property, was hired in 2021 after spending more than a decade at Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp.
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