US Justice Department says Google misuses attorney-client privilege to hide documents
against the tech giant that Google instructs employees to add in-house lawyers to written communication, apply attorney-client privilege labels to them and make a request for legal advice even when it's not needed. The department is now asking the judge to sanction the company"for its extensive and intentional efforts to misuse the attorney-client privilege to hide business documents relevant" to the case.
According to the DOJ, statements such as"adding legal" or"adding [attorney] for legal advice" appear in thousands of Google documents. These emails apparently lacked any specific request for advice and attorneys rarely respond to them. In the brief, the department said the practice"pervades the entire company" and is being used even by Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai.
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