DOJ Seeks Jackson Walker’s Partnership Agreement in Ethics Probe

Jackson Walker LLP should be forced to hand over its partnership agreement as part of a probe into whether the firm should’ve disclosed a relationship between a bankruptcy judge and one of its attorneys, a Justice Department unit said.

The agreement would reveal whether the Texas firm’s partners could have removed former firm partner Elizabeth Freeman after they learned of her relationship with ex-judge David R. Jones, the Justice Department’s bankruptcy monitor, the US Trustee, told the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas on Monday.

“Jackson Walker’s Partnership Agreement represents potentially the only contractual basis for what ...