Wonder if this is the killer lawyer they were looking for.
Interesting pick.
Brandon Ehrhart: 20+ years at DISH Network/EchoStar before joining Tesla, pretty much his whole career (LinkedIn)
Could be handpicked by Elon, given the history of Dish Network vs SpaceX/Starlink legal tussles going back at least 2016 (SpaceNews: Dish Network battles OneWeb and SpaceX; Reddit thread), as recently as last year (Reddit: Starlink asking for help against Dish; Dish and Viasat’s fight against Starlink satellite deployment), and last month (Dish Network, Environmental Group Sue to Stop SpaceX's Second-Gen Starlink).