The Justice Department (DOJ) on Monday accused Google of training its employees to improperly use attorney-client privilege to hide documents from discovery in litigation and government investigations. In a court filing, the Justice Department asked for Google to be sanctioned for creating a “Communicate with Care” program that the department says trains staff to include an attorney and a request for advice when writing about sensitive business issues. “Often, knowing the game, the in-house counsel included in these Communicate-with-Care emails does not respond at all,” the department said, adding that many of the emails had to do with revenue share agreements that Google had struck with other companies. “For almost a decade, Google has trained its employees to use the attorney-client privilege to hide ordinary business communications from discovery in litigation and government investigations,” the department said. In the court brief, attorneys for the Justice Department said that Google has …
DOJ Accuses Google of Training Employees to Shield Business Communications
March 22, 2022
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