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Tesla is building a new in-house, full-scale legal team

Teslarati

Tesla is taking an interesting approach with its Legal Department by building a “full-scale internal litigation and trial team,” according to General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for the automaker, Brandon Ehrhart. It is an interesting approach to the legal side of things.

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EV fleet charging at home: reimbursement strategies, policies, pitfalls, taxes and legal implications (Webinar) – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Join this webinar at the June Virtual Conference on EV Infrastructure to learn more about EV home-charging reimbursement solutions, policies, potential pitfalls, tax and legal implications, and the essentials for successfully implementing a compliant home-charging reimbursement program. Then, avoid the danger zone from day one.

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Tesla beefs up ‘Hardcore’ Legal team with new General Counsel hire

Teslarati

Tesla has beefed up its “hardcore” legal team with a new General Counsel hire in Brandon Ehrhart, who spent over two decades with Dish Network. Excited to have Brandon Ehrhart join the Tesla team as our General Counsel & to have Dinna Eskin continue in a leadership role in Tesla Legal, as we build a world class team!

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LG Energy Solution and SK Innovation to end all legal disputes over EV batteries in US and Korea

Green Car Congress

LG Energy Solution and SK Innovation have agreed to settle all legal disputes relating to EV batteries in the United States and Korea. As a result, all litigation between the companies, which began in April 2019, is resolved. In this agreement, the two companies agreed to the following terms.

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Failed SONDORS Metacycle motorcycle was never street legal, reveals employee

Baua Electric

A former SONDORS employee has revealed new details regarding the Metacycle electric motorcycle sold by the now-defunct SONDORS e-bike company, describing the project as “a freight train wreck turned into a dumpster fire.” On the business side, the company had a tendency to skirt importation tariffs through improper classifications.

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Tesla boosts its legal team by hiring top securities lawyer

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Tesla’s legal team received a boost last month, with the company hiring Derek Windham, a top securities lawyer, as its senior director and deputy general counsel for corporate and securities. He would be reporting to the head of Tesla’s in-house legal team, who, in turn, reports directly to CEO Elon Musk. .

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NTT DATA and DENSO building industry-wide dataspace for EV batteries

Green Car Congress

NTT DATA Corporation and DENSO Corporation have started to build an industry-wide ecosystem for electric vehicle (EV) batteries to create a global trusted dataspaces where only necessary data can be shared, while also protecting private data. The two companies were officially approved as business operators in September 2022.