"Nobody yet has mentioned the big picture. To me the big queston is: How the fuck do Levandowski and Kalanick still have jobs at Uber?
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It would damage their claim that nothing bad happened.
You also assume this isn't a deliberate strategy on the part of the lawyers:
See if they can avoid discovery by having him claim the fifth, while not firing him/etc for doing it.
You can hold the fact that someone claimed the fifth against them in a civil lawsuit.
Uber could just be betting that the consequences of this strategy are better than the documents that would get released.
It would damage their claim that nothing bad happened. You also assume this isn't a deliberate strategy on the part of the lawyers:
See if they can avoid discovery by having him claim the fifth, while not firing him/etc for doing it.
You can hold the fact that someone claimed the fifth against them in a civil lawsuit. Uber could just be betting that the consequences of this strategy are better than the documents that would get released.