Meet the lawyer who beat Elon Musk — twice
Watching Elon Musk fulminate at Bill Savitt during Musk v. Altman — the case in which Musk sued Sam Altman and OpenAI instead of seeing a therapist about his AI failures — was a bit like watching a toddler have a temper tantrum at his nursery school teacher. Savitt’s questions were “designed to trick me,” Musk said. He also told Savitt at one point, “You mostly do unfair questions.”
Savitt, who has the approximate demeanor of a handsome Droopy Dog, gently told Musk, “I am trying to put the questions as fairly as I can. I am doing my best.”
I’ve seen a number of styles of cross-examination. Savitt’s was mild-mannered and soft-spoken; his questions were mostly easy to answer, sometimes simply asking Musk to restate things he’d said in direct examination earlier that day. That Musk mysteriously could no longer remember what he’d happily told his own lawyer...
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