They’ve Got Next: The 40 Under 40 - Yaakov Roth of Jones Day

Please describe two of your most substantial, recent wins in practice.
I was honored to convince the Supreme Court to unanimously reverse the convictions of my client, Bridget Kelly, on charges arising out of the so-called “Bridgegate” scandal. For many years, I’ve been troubled by the criminalization of politics and prosecutorial overreach in the political sphere. I had the opportunity to combat those trends when I helped [former] Governor [Bob] McDonnell of Virginia defeat bogus bribery charges in the Supreme Court a few years ago. Bridgegate felt like more of the same—a politically unpopular action that was contorted into a ...