‘A masterful coup’: law firm behind Musk pay lawsuit faces internal revolt

Star shareholder lawyer Jeroen van Kwawegen has left Bernstein Litowitz to launch JVK Law, taking nearly the firm’s entire corporate governance practice with him after the firm’s landmark victory voiding Elon Musk’s $55 billion Tesla pay package, a rupture that leaves the new firm facing the capital demands of large contingency litigation and raises fresh questions about whether litigation funding will play a role as clients and cases migrate.

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