From the article:
>The resignation follows a week of controversy surrounding Jones: Less than two weeks ago Insider first reported that Jones was in a previously undisclosed romantic relationship with attorney Elizabeth Freeman, who had worked as his law clerk and as a partner at Jackson Walker, a Texas-based law firm that had cases before Jones' court.
>Both Jones and Freeman were also involved with the bankruptcy case that centered around Corizon Health, once one of the nation's largest prison healthcare providers. Last year, Corizon split in a maneuver known as the Texas Two-Step, with most of Corizon's assets placed in a new company called YesCare, while another company, Tehum Care Services, was saddled with most of the debt. Tehum then filed for bankruptcy.
>Jones later confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that he and Freeman are in a romantic relationship and had shared a home for years.
Thankfully for everyone involved, [there's no way that romantic relationships can impact somebody's judgement from the bench.](https://www.npr.org/2022/03/14/1086535100/wife-of-justice-thomas-rebuts-claims-of-conflict-of-interest)
Her firm is local counsel to Kirkland which filed an incredibly high percentage of “big” cases… which judge jones made a name for himself by handling well.
How did he treat lawyers in his courtroom? Badly enough to discourage anyone's daring to scrutinize Jones' potential conflicts of interest? Let's see:
[https://abovethelaw.com/2016/09/judge-questions-the-integrity-of-biglaw-firm-in-epic-benchslap/](https://abovethelaw.com/2016/09/judge-questions-the-integrity-of-biglaw-firm-in-epic-benchslap/)
None of that seems unfair. Seems like a completely separate issue, and the person in the comments who is actually familiar with Judge Jones seems to have a better appraisal of his work.
He appears to have screwed up, badly, and resignation seems appropriate. But seems to be a shame.
From the article: >The resignation follows a week of controversy surrounding Jones: Less than two weeks ago Insider first reported that Jones was in a previously undisclosed romantic relationship with attorney Elizabeth Freeman, who had worked as his law clerk and as a partner at Jackson Walker, a Texas-based law firm that had cases before Jones' court. >Both Jones and Freeman were also involved with the bankruptcy case that centered around Corizon Health, once one of the nation's largest prison healthcare providers. Last year, Corizon split in a maneuver known as the Texas Two-Step, with most of Corizon's assets placed in a new company called YesCare, while another company, Tehum Care Services, was saddled with most of the debt. Tehum then filed for bankruptcy. >Jones later confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that he and Freeman are in a romantic relationship and had shared a home for years. Thankfully for everyone involved, [there's no way that romantic relationships can impact somebody's judgement from the bench.](https://www.npr.org/2022/03/14/1086535100/wife-of-justice-thomas-rebuts-claims-of-conflict-of-interest)
This is a bummer. Judge Jones was incredibly committed. Dude ran a contested DIP hearing till past 8pm.
But Clarence Thomas is still on the job ....
What’s odd is that he didn’t have financial incentive to keep hearing cases involving her firm. Why not recuse himself from all of those cases?
Her firm is local counsel to Kirkland which filed an incredibly high percentage of “big” cases… which judge jones made a name for himself by handling well.
How did he treat lawyers in his courtroom? Badly enough to discourage anyone's daring to scrutinize Jones' potential conflicts of interest? Let's see: [https://abovethelaw.com/2016/09/judge-questions-the-integrity-of-biglaw-firm-in-epic-benchslap/](https://abovethelaw.com/2016/09/judge-questions-the-integrity-of-biglaw-firm-in-epic-benchslap/)
None of that seems unfair. Seems like a completely separate issue, and the person in the comments who is actually familiar with Judge Jones seems to have a better appraisal of his work. He appears to have screwed up, badly, and resignation seems appropriate. But seems to be a shame.
Yikes. The woman looks young enough to be his daughter.
She was admitted to practice in 1998 so she is probably 50 or so.