Jackson Walker LLP litigation partner W. Ross Forbes was having dinner with a friend at Moxies restaurant in Dallas on Jan. 31, 2022, when he became the unsuspecting recipient of bombshell information—one of his colleagues was secretly living with a prominent judge.
The revelation came after Forbes asked the friend, also a client, if he liked the tickets to a Cowboys game that Forbes gave him that past Thanksgiving.
The friend, Gary George, said he did and noted that he took one of his own friends, Nick Simms, to the game. Then George mentioned that Simms’ ex-wife, Elizabeth Freeman, worked ...