Jackson Walker Pushes for Dismissal from ‘Fiction’ ‘Labeled as a Complaint’ in Judge Jones-Related RICO Suit

Three months after initially arguing for dismissal of a lawsuit brought against Jackson Walker by a former CEO who alleges he was the victim of a conspiracy carried out in a bankruptcy proceeding before former Judge David Jones, the law firm re-urged that outcome in a reply filed Wednesday.

In February, former Bouchard Transportation Company CEO Morton Bouchard III filed a racketeering and fraud lawsuit against former Judge Jones, former Jackson Walker bankruptcy partner Elizabeth Freeman, Jackson Walker, Kirkland & Ellis and Portage Point Partners, a bankruptcy advisory firm appointed by Judge Jones to oversee the BTO bankruptcy in 2020. The lawsuit was filed in the wake of the public disclosure of a previously private romantic relationship between Jones and Freeman.