Kirkland & Ellis and Jackson Walker are facing new allegations that they helped keep secret a former Texas bankruptcy judge’s relationship with a local attorney.
The former CEO of petroleum barge company Bouchard Transportation Co. Inc. accused the two firms of filing multiple “misleading and dishonest” court papers in the company’s Chapter 11 case without disclosing the relationship between former Southern District of Texas bankruptcy court Judge David R. Jones and attorney Elizabeth Freeman. The civil suit, filed Monday by former CEO Morton S. Bouchard III, is the latest in the fallout related to Jones’ relationship with Freeman, a former ...