The following are edited remarks by Southern District Judge Jed S. Rakoff at the 2010 presentation of the New York City Bar’s Henry L. Stimson Medals to Outstanding Assistant U.S. Attorneys on June 10, 2010.
I am deeply honored to have been asked to speak in connection with this year’s awarding of the Henry L. Stimson medal to four outstanding representatives of two very great offices: the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Eastern and Southern districts of New York. I had the privilege of serving for more than seven years in the Southern District of New York and they were unquestionably among the very best years of my life. But as the saying goes, “You can’t go home again.”
