Recently revealed texts highlighting a Houston attorney’s apparent interactions with a former bankruptcy judge whom she was dating have added more fuel to the fire amid allegations that their relationship led to improper communications about cases he oversaw.
The texts offer a peek at how Elizabeth Freeman, a partner at Jackson Walker LLP at the time, characterized to her firm colleague her discussions of Chapter 11 cases with David R. Jones, her boyfriend and then-judge for the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
And while they don’t necessarily confirm improper, “ex parte” communications, the texts do raise ...
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