Attorneys who advised Jackson Walker LLP about how to navigate the romance between one of its attorneys and a bankruptcy judge must comply with a Justice Department subpoena, a judge ruled.
The Texas law firm forfeited attorney-client privilege with its advisers at Holland & Knight LLP because it disclosed documents to a third party, Judge Amy M. Baggio of the US District Court for the District of Oregon ruled Nov. 27.
Jackson Walker disclosed to an attorney for Elizabeth Freeman, a onetime partner with the firm who was in a once-secret relationship with former bankruptcy judge David R. Jones, memos ...
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