A Texas law firm tied up in litigation related to the clandestine relationship between its onetime partner and a prominent bankruptcy judge is pushing back against questioning from the Justice Department.
Jackson Walker LLP is battling accusations from the Justice Department’s bankruptcy monitor, the US Trustee’s office, that it helped keep the romance under wraps for its own benefit. But the efforts to connect the firm with the “alleged secret affair” between former partner Elizabeth Freeman and former Houston bankruptcy judge David R. Jones are flawed, Jackson Walker said in court filings Monday.
“The U.S. Trustee’s motivating thesis has never ...
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