"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? " It would damage their

"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? " 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.