Norton Rose Fulbright is representing Senator Robert Menendez in U.S. v. Menendez et al. in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Led by Washington, DC partner Abbe David Lowell, the Norton Rose Fulbright litigation team also includes New York partner Jenny Kramer and Washington, DC partner Christopher Man. Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP and McDermott Will & Emery LLP serve as co-counsel.

Lowell, who is Norton Rose Fulbright’s US Head of White Collar Crime and US Co-Head of Regulations, Investigations, Securities and Compliance, comments:

"With the court's decision, this case is now solely about the purest of personal hospitality allegations -- stays at his friend, Dr. Melgen's family home and reimbursed trips on a plane that Dr. Melgen was flying anyway. A jury rejected the government's facts and theory of bribery, and now the trial judge has rejected a critical legal theory on which the case was brought. The decision of the DOJ to retry the case makes even less sense than it did last week and we hope it would be reconsidered."