[robonerd]

Or they CC'd lawyers in all the discussions, ostensibly to receive legal review but actually so they could later try to hide those discussions from discovery under the pretext of it being privileged attorney-client communication.

"Google routinely hides emails from litigation by CCing attorneys, DOJ alleges" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/google-routinely...

[anticensor]

As soon as you add a third party as a carbon-copy recipient, you lose the privacy privilege of the attorney-client communication.