Electric car maker Lucid Motors Inc. has picked up a new general counsel from rival Tesla Inc.’s legal department, which still remains without a named top lawyer after losing three general counsel last year. 

Lucid announced this week that it hired former Tesla deputy general counsel Jonathan Butler to serve as the Newark, California-based company’s general counsel and vice president. Butler, who spent more than eight years in Tesla’s legal department, started his new job from home on April 27.