Jackson Walker Faces Creditor Call for Bankruptcy Fee Clawback

Jackson Walker LLP should give back fees it earned during a hand sanitizer company’s bankruptcy because it failed to disclose a relationship between an attorney and the judge who oversaw the case, creditors said.

The creditors alleged Jackson Walker allowed one of its attorneys to work on 4E Brands Northamerica LLC’s 2022 bankruptcy despite saying recently that she was distanced from the judge’s cases. The firm should be disqualified from the case and be forced to give up all fees it earned since its retention in the bankruptcy, an unsecured creditors group told the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern ...