A Virginia technology accelerator is seeking more than $1 million from Jackson Walker and senior counsel Jennifer Bryant of Houston in a legal malpractice suit alleging that Bryant handled a vendor contract for the accelerator—which ultimately went south—when she also had close ties to the vendor.

Defense Energy Center of Excellence, which does business as National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL), alleged that Bryant failed to disclose that she was also representing TechConnect, a conference organizing program formed by a former NSTXL board member, Matt Laudon. The suit alleged that Jackson Walker was on both sides of the table in a deal NSTXL entered with TechConnect, and the firm failed to suggest that NXTSL should seek independent counsel.