I am happy to report that I received a call from my friend — the one on whose behalf I filed an ethics complaint (see the complaint here) — and she has been contacted by an investigator with the governing body and they are going forward with my complaint! She did send the governing body a letter stating that everything that I had alleged in the complaint was true. She has been told by the investigator that the complaint will be opened in my name against the lawyer, so as to “protect” her while she is still working in the legal community. This is a little odd, since the initial response of the governing body to my written complaint was that they did not want to open a complaint if I was not the injured party. Such is the path of hypocrisy and bureaucracy on the way to justice (we hope).