WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) — A global law firm, Dechert LLP, is being accused of illegally obtaining attorney-client emails from opposing parties in cases involving its clients.
Oussama El Omari filed a complaint June 1 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Dechert LLP, Nicholas Paul Del Rosso and Vital Management Services Inc., alleging conversion and other claims.
According to Omari's complaint, the defendant Del Rosso, a private investigator who was hired by Dechert, illegally obtained "a tranche" of confidential and privileged attorney-client communications between him and his attorneys.
He claims that in 2017, the defendants used "Indian hackers" to get into his email account to copy legal email correspondence. Omari further claims that in January of 2023, his attorney's emails were discovered on Del Rosso's laptop.
Omari alleges the "surveillance-for-hire" involved other Dechert adversaries and the use of phishing emails intended to trick him to access and copy his attorney communications to use in "adversarial proceedings." Omari alleges Dechert was representing Rakftza and Kreab USA, Saud and The Arkin Group LLC, who were the defendants in a fraud case he filed.
Omari seeks monetary relief, interest, trial by jury and all other just relief. He is represented by Scott Moore of Moore International Law PLLC in New York City.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York case number 1:23-CV-04607