Members of Tesla's board of directors are lawyering up as crisis around Elon Musk deepens (TSLA)

Getty Some members of Tesla's board of directors are hiring lawyers to protect themselves in the ongoing fallout from CEO Elon Musk's public declarations about taking the company private. Fellow board members are also urging Musk to cool it with the public statements about a go-private deal, according to a New York Times story published Tuesday night. By all appearances, Musk has ignored that advice. In the days since he tweeted that a privatization deal was "funding secured," the chief executiv...