The news is full of stories about Hewlett-Packard's Chairman, Patricia Dunn, spying on her own directors through the use of investigators who engaged in pretexting. Pretexting involves pretending to be someone else in order to get that person's cell phone or other telephone records. Although I haven't seen any stories that implicate the company's lawyers in the pretexting scandal, the legal ethics issues associated with pretexting are certainly interesting and, as I mentioned a few months ago, controversial.