The Justice Department will satisfy a set of information requests from Jackson Walker LLP while investigating the law firm’s knowledge of a former partner’s romantic relationship with a now-resigned Houston bankruptcy judge.
Judge Eduardo V. Rodriguez of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas issued specific instructions Tuesday requiring the federal government’s US Trustee office in South Texas to provide Jackson Walker with discovery documents and answers to various questions regarding the office’s probe of the firm.
Jackson Walker, which is embroiled in US Trustee litigation for not disclosing the relationship between attorney Elizabeth Freeman and former ...
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