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How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment

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154 points tysone | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 11:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.242s | source
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lxgr ◴[20 Nov 24 23:48 UTC] No.42199412[source]▶
> put “attorney-client privileged” on documents and to always add a Google lawyer to the list of recipients, even if no legal questions were involved and the lawyer never responded

Wow. One of the very first things I learned when onboarding to a US company is that the client-attorney privilege does not work like that at all.

“Privileged and confidential” is not a legal shibboleth (especially not when used so incorrectly).

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1. mikeyouse ◴[21 Nov 24 02:20 UTC] No.42200426[source]▶
We’re not even allowed to add watchers to our legal Jira since our lawyers have told us it destroys privilege if there are multiple people in the discussion with the legal team. No chance if that’s true that a “cc:Lawyer” would provide any meaningful protection.