Jonathan Bach

June 16, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Jonathan Bach and Reed A. Smith write that a high-profile insider trading prosecution, currently pending in the Southern District of New York, has yielded the first indications that the tide may have turned against a questionable prosecutorial practice of using superseding indictments to channel certain criminal cases around the district's system of random judicial assignment.

By Jonathan Bach and Reed A. Smith

23 minute read

September 30, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Jonathan Bach and Rachel B. Kane of Cooley write: Questions of judicial assignment necessarily involve more than just administrative considerations in a system dedicated to justice and fairness. Whether the Southern District of New York should have a rule governing judicial assignment in related criminal cases is an intriguing and important question that the 'Steinberg' case has raised in a prominent way.

By Jonathan Bach and Rachel B. Kane

13 minute read