The Justice Department’s bankruptcy watchdog urged a court to reject Jackson Walker LLP’s request for a jury trial over litigation alleging it concealed an ex-partner’s romance with a judge.
The Texas-based law firm isn’t entitled to a jury trial under the Seventh Amendment because the relief being sought isn’t legal in nature, the US Trustee said in a Wednesday filing in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
The US Trustee’s office has challenged more than $23 million in fees Jackson Walker earned in cases involving onetime partner Elizabeth Freeman and former Houston bankruptcy judge David R. ...
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