{"id":2310,"date":"2024-08-19T23:58:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T23:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/chief-bankruptcy-judge-finds-ex-judge-david-jones-acted-in-bad-faith-in-connection-with-informal-interview\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T23:58:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T23:58:19","slug":"chief-bankruptcy-judge-finds-ex-judge-david-jones-acted-in-bad-faith-in-connection-with-informal-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/chief-bankruptcy-judge-finds-ex-judge-david-jones-acted-in-bad-faith-in-connection-with-informal-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Bankruptcy Judge Finds Ex-Judge David Jones Acted in Bad Faith in Connection With Informal Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/25050954-govuscourtstxsb4680992660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">memorandum opinion<\/a> on Friday, Chief Judge Eduardo Rodriguez of the Southern District of Texas also \u201cnarrowly found\u201d that Jackson Walker and two of its counsel\u2014Norton Rose Fulbright partner Jason Boland of Houston and Rusty Hardin of Russell Hardin &amp; Associates of Houston\u2014and Jones\u2019 counsel Benjamin Finestone, a partner in Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &amp; Sullivan in New York, did not act in bad faith and would not be sanctioned.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3047,784,128,616,3048,577,3046,785,674,3049,3050,1393,423],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-acted","tag-bad","tag-bankruptcy","tag-chief","tag-connection","tag-david","tag-exjudge","tag-faith","tag-finds","tag-informal","tag-interview","tag-jones","tag-judge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}