By Amanda Bronstad | April 22, 2024
Friday's verdict against Johnson & Johnson, in Chicago's Cook County Circuit Court, is the first for a mesothelioma victim since two failed talc bankruptcies last year—and a groundbreaking win for Dallas-based Dean Omar Branham Shirley.
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By Dan Roe | April 22, 2024
As more large corporations go bust, lenders are jockeying for the position to get repaid first.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | April 9, 2024
Avi Luft, a financial restructuring of counsel at Paul Hastings, has joined Akin as a partner in New York.
By Adolfo Pesquera | April 5, 2024
The judge had come under previous scrutiny for two fictional novels she wrote and published, which critics claim appear to be based on real litigation.
By Adolfo Pesquera | April 2, 2024
"The law does not require punishing lenders who work in good faith with borrowers who wanted to work with lenders," U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez said.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | March 25, 2024
Like other defendants, Jackson Walker asks a judge to dismiss a suit filed by an unhappy litigant that seeks fee forfeiture in a bankruptcy handled by former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones.
By Adolfo Pesquera | March 25, 2024
The parties have been in litigation for nearly a decade.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | March 18, 2024
Kirkland & Ellis seeks to be dismissed from a federal lawsuit filed against former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones that is connected to an undisclosed romantic relationship between Jones and Elizabeth Freeman, a former partner in Texas' Jackson Walker.
By Dan Roe | March 5, 2024
Collectively, the firms took on nearly 300 debtor retentions in two jointly administered bankruptcies.
By Adolfo Pesquera | February 27, 2024
A former CEO alleges Jackson Walker and Kirkland knew of a judge's relationship with a partner "and used it to profit" by bringing tens of millions of dollars through the "Jones'-Freeman conduit."
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