September 24, 2025
Lawyers winding down the bankruptcy estate of department store J.C. Penney told a Texas bankruptcy judge on Wednesday they expect to be able to make final creditor payments shortly, nearly five years after the Chapter 11 plan took effect.
June 11, 2025
J.C. Penney has called on a Texas bankruptcy court to knock down Jackson Walker LLP's bid to escape a fee suit prompted by a yearslong secret romance between a former firm partner and a onetime bankruptcy judge, saying the firm's dismissal bid is "riddled with implausibility, excuse and contradiction."
May 16, 2025
Jackson Walker LLP wants out of a fee suit brought by former client J.C. Penney, arguing that the bankrupt department store's wind-down debtors entered claims as a "leverage play and a money grab" after learning that a firm partner had engaged in a yearslong undisclosed relationship with a Texas bankruptcy judge.
May 02, 2025
The wind down estate of J.C. Penney beefed up its allegations that Jackson Walker covered up a relationship between a former bankruptcy partner and Texas bankruptcy judge in an updated lawsuit to recover over $1 million in legal fees from its 2020 Chapter 11, shedding light on the firms emails with a public relations firm and outside ethics counsel.
February 03, 2025
A New Jersey event venue, a lithium battery maker and the operator of one of the world's largest cobalt refineries hit Chapter 11; retailer Party City wants to beef up security for its current and former directors, citing threats of violence; and yet another former member of Byju's Alpha's top brass was sanctioned for contempt of court.
January 29, 2025
Jackson Walker LLP should have to return the more than $1 million paid to it by J.C. Penney given the firm's failure to disclose that one of its partners had a romantic relationship with the judge who had overseen the retailer's bankruptcy, the retailer's estate says in a new lawsuit in Texas federal court.
August 10, 2022
A Texas bankruptcy judge has given the wind-down estate of retail chain J.C. Penney permission to settle nearly $30.3 million in claims for just more than $12.4 million, which the estate said was more efficient than attempting to fight the claims in court.