Judge Slams Law Firm, Says It 'Defiled The Very Temple Of Justice'

Judge Slams Law Firm, Says It 'Defiled The Very Temple Of Justice'

The once-secret relationship between former judge David R. Jones and attorney Elizabeth Freeman is still causing reverberations in legal circles. The federal bankruptcy judge was romantically linked with the bankruptcy partner of a major law firm — Jackson Walker — and continued to hear cases involving that partner/law firm, so there’s a lot of ethics issues to parse through. In the immediate aftermath of the romantic entanglement becoming publi…