Jonathan Bauer

Practice a broad range of commercial litigation, including complex insurance coverage, trusts and estates, and antitrust litigation. Focus on all aspects of matters from pre-complaint advice through trial. Extensive courtroom experience, including first-chairing six trials.

Extensive complex commercial litigation experience, including trial counsel in six-month long, $800 million trusts and estates trial, Cohen v. Perelman.

Practiced complex commercial litigation, with a focus on large commercial insurance recovery matters. Worked with economists to establish complex international commerce damage theory in connection with Hurricane Katrina business interruption claim.

General counsel for wholly-owned equities and foreign exchange trading platform, Lava Trading, Inc. Advised on all issues, including intellectual property, contracts, litigation, regulatory matters, employment, and corporate law. Equities trading floor support attorney for Citi. Communicated with regulators and SROs on investigations, compliance, and regulatory changes.

Developed expertise in complex commercial insurance recovery claims. Took and defended over 200 depositions, including both fact and expert witnesses. Drafted and won eight-figure summary judgment allocation motion in large environmental coverage case. Made educational presentations in developing insurance coverage areas such as directors and officers coverage, fidelity coverage, and large property and liability losses.

Commercial law, prisoner rights law, moral philosophy, epistemology

Original source study of the Western intellectual traditions, from Ancient Greece to the Twentieth Century