The fallout from the affair involving a Texas bankruptcy judge and a former Jackson Walker LLP partner has put at least $13 million in fees at risk, and bogged the firm down in multiple proceedings that threaten to wreak more damage on its reputation.
Jackson Walker, a more than 500-attorney outfit with six offices across the Lone Star State, already collected the fees across 26 Chapter 11 cases in which the firm didn’t disclose that former partner Elizabeth Freeman was romantically involved with now-resigned bankruptcy judge David R. Jones.
But Jackson Walker and others in the coming months face more ...
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