The administrator for JCPenney’s 2020 bankruptcy sued the company’s former law firm, Jackson Walker LLP, for failing to disclose a romance between one of the firm’s ex-partners and the bankruptcy judge who oversaw its Chapter 11 case.
Jackson Walker put its own interests before its duty to its clients when it kept secret a relationship between former partner Elizabeth Freeman and ex-Houston bankruptcy judge David R. Jones, the administrator said in a complaint filed Tuesday in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
While the fallout from the romance has led to extensive litigation, the suit is ...