“That is not negotiable.

No illegal hacking.

No stolen confidential files.

Nothing that a judge could ever throw out or hold against you.

Whatever your cousin gave you, she gave you through her own legitimate access, and that’s where the informal part ends.

From here, we do everything through formal legal discovery, in the open, on the record, the way it will survive any challenge his lawyers throw at it.

I have seen too many people in your position hand a good case to the other side by getting clever, by cutting a corner they thought no one would ever notice.