Partner Barak Cohen was quoted in “White-Collar Lawyers: What to Know About Mueller’s Trump-Russia Grand Jury,” an article in The National Law Journal, regarding Robert Mueller's decision to convene a grand jury to investigate the possible collusion of President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign with Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Mueller has reached a new level. The role of a grand jury is to listen to evidence brought by federal prosecutors and, when the time comes, decide whether to issue an indictment. The fact Mueller has turned to the grand jury process, which allows him to issue subpoenas for a broad range of documents, means his investigation has reached a different level, said Barak Cohen. Cohen is a former federal prosecutor who chairs the firm’s Washington, D.C., commercial litigation practice.

“Prosecutors don’t just open grand juries,” Cohen said. “This should tell you that Mueller now has enough evidence of a crime having been committed.There’s enough evidence to open a grand jury.”

“There’s a reason why reporters are always waiting [around the courthouse],” Cohen said.