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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Jan. 10, 2012

Hacking allegations against lawyer dropped

The State Bar has closed - without filing charges - an ethics investigation into a civil litigator accused of illegally intercepting a privileged email of an opposing party and his attorney and using it at a deposition.


By Ciaran McEvoy


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The State Bar has closed - without filing charges - an ethics investigation into a Burbank-based civil litigator accused of illegally intercepting a privileged email of an opposing party and his attorney and using it at a deposition.


In a letter dated Jan. 4, sole practitioner Roy Penuela was informed that the State Bar had completed its investigation into his alleged activities and "determined ...

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