A chief bankruptcy judge in Texas has found that embattled former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones of Houston acted in bad faith for participating in a recent interview with Jackson Walker and lawyers, and sanctioned Jones to 7.5 hours of ethics-related continuing legal education approved by the State Bar of Texas.
In a memorandum opinion on Friday, Chief Judge Eduardo Rodriguez of the Southern District of Texas also “narrowly found” that Jackson Walker and two of its counsel—Norton Rose Fulbright partner Jason Boland of Houston and Rusty Hardin of Russell Hardin & Associates of Houston—and Jones’ counsel Benjamin Finestone, a partner in Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in New York, did not act in bad faith and would not be sanctioned.