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I have some familiarity with the legal system. If you’re in enough lawsuits you pick up a few things along the way.

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— Elon Musk, cracking a joke in response to a question asked during cross-examination by Gregory Varallo of Bernstein Litowitz, in the Tesla trial challenging his compensation. Varallo wondered if Musk was “trained as a lawyer” after the CEO said the consent decree he’d reached with the SEC in 2018 was “not valid as a foundation of law” because he entered it “under duress.”

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