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by Sandworm5639 1182 days ago
> At any given time, Google has thousands of employees who are under a litigation hold for document preservation.

Crazy, it's an order of magnitude more than I'd guess.

> Lim testified that the thought process that he might need to save something that was said because he was subject to a legal hold simply “doesn’t occur because, as I said, I’m under so many legal holds, it’s impossible to think that way.”

This is also a crazy thing to say. But I guess I misunderstand something here, just before that it says that he did try to save _something_ copying it into docs etc and the problem is that he wasn't saving _everything_.

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I think he meant that he can't spend his whole life reviewing every document he touches against every legal hold he is under. And if it's so important, management should be automatically saving everything.