{"id":5087,"date":"2025-04-04T23:21:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T23:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/jackson-walker-ex-bankruptcy-client-reach-760k-settlement-in-fee-dispute\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T23:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T23:21:43","slug":"jackson-walker-ex-bankruptcy-client-reach-760k-settlement-in-fee-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/jackson-walker-ex-bankruptcy-client-reach-760k-settlement-in-fee-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Walker, Ex-Bankruptcy Client Reach $760K Settlement in Fee Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/law-firm-profile\/?id=158&amp;name=Jackson-Walker\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jackson Walker<\/a> and former bankruptcy client Basic Energy Services have reached a settlement agreement calling for the Texas law firm to pay more than $760,000 to resolve a fee dispute stemming from a romantic relationship between a former Jackson Walker partner and former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones of the Southern District of Texas. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Dozens of former bankruptcy clients of Jackson Walker are seeking fee forfeiture from Jackson Walker because the firm failed to timely disclose the relationship between former partner Elizabeth Freeman and Judge Jones, who presided over the bankruptcies. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson Walker and former bankruptcy client Basic Energy Services have reached a settlement agreement calling for the Texas law firm to pay more than $760,000 to resolve a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5373,336,323,5372,717,1684,1885,399,2312],"class_list":["post-5087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-760k","tag-client","tag-dispute","tag-exbankruptcy","tag-fee","tag-jackson","tag-reach","tag-settlement","tag-walker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087","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=5087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}