Man, I gotta push back on this a little. Legal skipping meetings to avoid discovery sounds clever on paper, but that reasoning falls apart when you actually look at how discovery works. Once a lawsuit starts, they can pull emails, Slack messages, texts, basically anything written down, whether or not a lawyer was in the room when it got said. So legal not showing up doesn't really protect anyone, it just means nobody catches the dumb stuff before it becomes a problem. Also, that quick reply asking you to take them off the thread isn't some secret confirmation, that's just standard practice, lawyers don't want their inbox filling up with random meeting recaps they never asked for. Keeping your notes vague is fine and all, but I wouldn't read some big corporate conspiracy into it, sometimes people just don't want to sit through another hour long status call lol.