By Robert Chapski 

Along the lines of our post from a few weeks ago on metadata ethics and our story in May on "Facebook Ethical Traps", a Chattanooga law firm is being sued after allegedly using as evidence in a divorce case email a client acquired from her husband through the use of spyware.  Stories like this beg the question as to how far lawyers can go to research and use information surreptitiously gathered from email and social networking websites.