Christopher G. Michel

Christopher G. Michel, appellate partner at Quinn Emanuel and former Supreme Court clerk, led the successful Delaware appeal reinstating Elon Musk’s $139B Tesla pay package. He recounts the high-stakes litigation, the Chancery Court’s controlling-stockholder and entire-fairness findings, the appellate strategy and moot prep, argument day in Dover, the Supreme Court’s narrow remedy, and the case’s wider Delaware law fallout.

Join Christopher G. Michel and John Bash as they discuss recent Supreme Court decisions affecting business regulations, including overturning the Chevron doctrine and limiting agency interpretations. They also touch on jury trials vs. administrative law judges in SEC v. Jarkesy, impacting how cases are tried in federal court.