Tesla vice president of legal Al Prescott leaves to join Luminar, a lidar company

• The move is an endorsement for lidar technology, which Tesla CEO Elon Musk has previously dismissed.
• Bill Berry, currently Tesla’s head of litigation, who joined in October 2020 and previously spent time working for Google, is expected head the Tesla department but not assume the role of general counsel according to people familiar with the matter.
• Tesla previously lost three general counsels over the course of a year in 2018 and 2019.
• https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/tesla-loses-vice-president-of-legal-al-prescott-leaves-to-join-luminar.html
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