Bankruptcy judge marvin isgur children
Bankruptcy judge marvin isgur children
United States Bankruptcy Judge Marvin Isgur.
Bankruptcy Judge Tasked With Scandal Cleanup of ‘Adopted Son’
HOUSTON – In Houston’s close-knit bankruptcy court, judges David R. Jones and Marvin Isgur often stood in lockstep.
Former law partners, they transformed Houston from a backwater into a boomtown for high-dollar bankruptcies.
Isgur boasted, with a father’s pride, of how Jones revolutionized the Southern District of Texas’ bankruptcy system.
He hired Jones out of law school, worked with him for years in private practice, and has called Jones his “stubborn adopted son.”
And now that Jones, 62, has resigned following the disclosure he approved millions in legal fees for a firm employing his live-in girlfriend, it will be Isgur who decides in many cases whether that firm can keep those fees.
The US Trustee in Texasmoved to clawback at least $13 million from the firm, Jackson Walker, and Isgur is the judge slated to decide many of those fee disputes.
He has already gone on record questioning whether the US Trustee has th