Terry Christensen, the lawyer facing trial this week on charges that he hired celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano to wiretap his opponent in a child support case, obtained conversations between his opponent and her lawyers, including her lawyer’s legal strategy in her upcoming deposition and her settlement proposals, according to a trial memo filed Tuesday by federal prosecutors in the case.

At one point, Christensen, managing partner at Los Angeles-based Christensen Glaser Fink Jacobs Weil & Shapiro, called his opponent’s lawyer, Stephen A. Kolodny, a partner at Beverly Hills-based Kolodny & Anteau, “the greediest piece of garbage that ever lived,” according to transcripts of recorded conversations with Pellicano that are detailed in the trial memo.

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