A trial will begin in December over whether a Texas law firm can keep fees it earned in a former oil and gas company’s bankruptcy despite the firm’s failure to disclose an attorney’s relationship with a mediating judge.
The trial, to begin Dec. 16, will pit Jackson Walker LLP against the Justice Department’s bankruptcy monitor, the US Trustee, which is trying to claw back millions of dollars in fees earned by the firm while one of its former partners, Elizabeth Freeman, was secretly dating ex-bankruptcy judge David R. Jones.
US Bankruptcy Judge Marvin Isgur at a Monday hearing said the ...
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