Jackson Walker LLP rebuffed advice from its own outside ethics expert to disclose a relationship between a partner and a bankruptcy judge, instead opting for a confidentiality agreement barring discussions of the romance, according to a government-commissioned report.
The Texas law firm failed to uphold disclosure obligations under bankruptcy law, an expert report filed in Thursday in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas found. The firm exhibited a “persistent pattern of ignoring, obfuscating and concealing” a relationship between its former partner, Elizabeth Freeman, and former Houston bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones, according to the report.
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