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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog is seeking to force a law firm to give back millions of dollars in fe...

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog is seeking to force a law firm to give back millions of dollars in fe...

The U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog is seeking to force a law firm to give back millions of dollars in fees it earned in cases presided over by a top Texas bankruptcy judge after he confirmed he had been in an undisclosed romantic relationship with one of its lawyers. The Justice Department's Office of the U.S. Trustee late on Thursday began filing motions in several corporate bankruptcy cases seeking to reverse decisions by Houston-based U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones to award fees to Jackson Walker. Jones, who came to handle more major Chapter 11 corporate ba...

An analysis by Reuters has concluded that Texas bankruptcy law firm Jackson Walker failed to disclose whether it had checked for connections between its lawyers and judges in at least 27 cases.

David Jones was the busiest bankruptcy judge in the United States, overseeing the dissolution or restructuring of corporate titans ranging from Neiman Marcus to J.C. Penney.