Why Can’t Tesla Keep Its Top Lawyer? (Podcast)

The revolving door in Tesla’s legal department is spinning as fast as ever. A few weeks ago, it appointed its seventh chief legal officer within just the past four years.

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Amid Tesla’s many legal problems - from allegations of unfair labor practices to Tesla’s auto-pilot issues - is the automaker’s inability to hold onto a general counsel actually a problem? Or is this a non-issue for the electric car giant and its billionaire owner Elon Musk’s ?

On today’s episode of our weekly legal news podcast, On The Merits, we hear from Bloomberg Law reporter Brian Baxter, who broke the news last week of the latest attorney to leave Tesla. He talks about why this has been happening, how he learned about it, and what Tesla is or isn’t doing to stop this trend.

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