Not at all. In fact, it's already happened in this same lawsuit - https://www.recode.net/2017/12/15/16782534/alphabet-waymo-uber-self-driving-lawsuit-jacobs-let

Not at all. In fact, it's already happened in this same lawsuit - https://www.recode.net/2017/12/15/16782534/alphabet-waymo-uber-self-driving-lawsuit-jacobs-letter-surveillance https://www.recode.net/2017/12/15/16782534/alphabet-waymo-ub... Uber employee writes a letter making all sorts of damaging claims. He then settles for $4.5M. When made to testify, he "walked back some of the allegations in the letter".