Q: Is it a crime or a grievance for the state bar when an attorney who is divorcing hacks into wife's email account?
My ex husband is a licensed California Attorney. When we were litigating our divorce my attorney filed to be relieved as counsel because she could not "get ahold of" me. I felt our communications had been intercepted somehow. I was completely devoid of any tech know how then. At that time, my husband stopped paying my phone bill & assumed ownership of my cell phone number which was . At the same time, I could no longer get access to my only email account. My account has since remained out of reach to me going on 4 years now. I often try to get into it to no avail. Recently, I stumbled upon a prompt that said a code was sent to ** (ex husband's email address)! To me, this means it's probable he changed my password when he took my number. The major problem is that puts him in direct access to privileged, confidential emails between my atty & I who ended up dropping me over ignored attempts to reach me- ie emails I never received! I lost everything w/o representation vs. my lawyer husbnd
A:
Its is both.
The crime is reported to and prosecuted by the District Attorney.
The complaint is filed with the state bar.
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