Kirkland & Ellis LLP moved to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the legal giant of helping to hide a romantic relationship involving a prominent Texas bankruptcy judge and a local lawyer.
“That relationship has nothing to do with Kirkland,” the firm said in a Tuesday filing in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
The former CEO of petroleum barge company Bouchard Transportation Co. Inc. accused Kirkland of making misleading legal filings to conceal the romance between bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones and onetime Jackson Walker attorney Elizabeth Freeman. Kirkland often partnered with Jackson Walker to handle large ...
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