&quot;they were going to pay a lawyer to rubber-stamp things in the future&quot; carries the implication that they hadn&#x27;t asked a lawyer this time. Asking a &quot;legal team&quot; is asking a lawyer.<p>They decided to ask <i>even more lawyers</i>, at least one who is outside and a former judge, they didn&#x27;t decide to ask one lawyer as opposed to zero before.<p>I&#x27;m also not so sure you can draw broad conclusions about the company from this particular policy; &quot;we will only search an email for someone else after a court order, and we may search ourselves if we believe there&#x27;s enough evidence for a court order (we being lawyers).&quot; I don&#x27;t see much difference between the old and new policies; the main thing is that someone outside is asked.