A lot of lawyers would run from a crisis as large as Volkswagen’s emission scandal. David Detweiler isn’t one of them.

Detweiler joined Volkswagen Group of America as executive vice president and general counsel in February 2016, his first role in-house. It was only five months after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice of violation of the Clean Air Act to German parent company Volkswagen Group for using software in vehicles to intentionally cheat emissions tests.