University Attended:
St. John's University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1974
Law School Attended:
Albany Law School of Union University, J.D., 1977
Year of First Admission:
1978
Admission:
1978, New York; United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; United States District Court, Eastern District of New York; United States District Court, Northern District of New York; United States District Court, Southern District of New York; United States District Court, Western District of New York
Reported Cases:
Verdicts & Cases:HPM&B Congratulates Charles Bach, Alejandra Gil and Gregory Freedman on their major victory in the Court of Appeals in the SanMiguel matter; Congratulations to Charles Bach, ...; Congratulations to the 2026 Best Lawyers - United States; Congratulations to the 2026 Best Lawyers - United States; New York State Judicial Institute's 2025 Medicine for Judges Seminar HPM & B.; Defense Verdict:HPM&B recently obtained a defense verdict in New York Supreme Court, Kings County after...; Congratulations to Charles L. Bach, Jr. for being named Best Lawyers 2025 Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants Lawyer of the Year in New York!; HPM&B is proud to be listed in the 2025 Edition of the Best Lawyers in America!; Best Lawyers: ...; Summary Judgment Dismissal...; 2024 Best Lawyers: Lawyer of the Year; 2024 Best Laywers & 2024 Best Laywers: Ones to Watch; 2024 Best Lawyers; Summary Judgment Dismissal; Senior Partner Charles Bach, Managing Partner Adam Dlugacz and...; HPM&B Partner Charles Bach obtained a unanimous defense verdict in a medical negligence case; HPM&B Partner Charles Bach obtained a unanimous defense verdict in a medical negligence case on behalf of a skilled hand surgeon who was named as a defendant by the plaintiffs. The case was tried in New York County...; Successful Trial Result; HPM&B recently defended an interventional...; Administrative Hearing Victory; Charles Bach and Tom Grove recently prevailed at an...; HPM&B Blocks Foreign Co-Defendants's Attempt to Evade Liability Under New York's Long-Arm Statute; On behalf of a major medical institution, HPM&B's Charles L. Bach,...; HPMB's Motion to Dismiss Nine of Ten Causes of Action Granted in Commercial Litigation Lawsuit...; Defense Verdict in New York County Medical Malpractice Action; After a three-week trial, a unanimous New York County jury rendered a defense verdict in favor of five board-certified neonatologists affiliated with a premier New York City academic medical center. Plaintiffs claimed...; Defense Verdict in Queens County Medical Malpractice Action; A Queens County jury determined that a board-certified otolaryngologist/head and neck surgeon met the standard of care when he treated a patient with recurrent olfactory neuroblastoma. This rare cancer of the sinus had recurred in this patient on...; $10 Million Medical Malpractice Action In Queens County Discontinued After Plaintiff's Experts Were Subjected To Preclusion Under Frye/Parker; Plaintiffs alleged that a now 12-year-old boy suffered a severe right hemiparesis, cognitive delays and impaired speech as a result of labor mismanagement. On behalf of HPM & B's clients, a major academic medical center and several maternal...; Defense Verdict In The Southern District Of New York; On May 3, 2017, after an emotional trial in federal court involving the alleged wrongful death of a 31-year-old mother of four, a jury delivered a unanimous verdict in favor of two defendant obstetricians represented by HPM&B partners Chuck Bach...; Defense Verdict in New York County; On November 9, 2015, Charles L. Bach, Jr. obtained a unanimous defendant's verdict in New York County in a medical malpractice case brought against our client, a national leader in neurological surgery.Plaintiff alleged that our client...; Defense Verdict in Kings County; On October 6, 2004, in a Brooklyn courtroom, Charles L. Bach obtained a defense verdict on behalf of a a Manhattan hospital and its chief of...; Defense Verdict in New York County; On March 15, 2005, Charles L. Bach obtained a defense verdict on behalf of a Manhattan plastic surgeon against whom plaintiff sought $2 million in damages. Plaintiff, a 64-year-old woman,...; Defense Verdict in New York County; Charles Bach obtained a defense verdict for a prominent hand surgeon in October, 2007 in a New York County case in which plaintiff claimed that defendant's surgical and post-operative care were improper thereby causing the...; $25 Million Lawsuit; Chuck Bach successfully defended the staff of Harlem Hospital against allegations of prenatal and pediatric malpractice in a hotly-contested trial during which plaintiff's counsel sought more than $25 million in...; Brain Injury Claim Dismissal in New York County; The Supreme Court, New York County (Schlesinger, J.) has set aside a $9.25 million verdict and dismissed a complaint against an HPM&B client, a neurosurgeon who had been found 50% liable. Plaintiff's...; Defense Verdict in the Bronx; On July 1, 2010, Charles L. Bach, Jr., received a defense verdict on behalf of a major metropolitan area medical center in the Supreme Court, Bronx County in a...; Defense Verdict In Nassau County; Charles L. Bach, Jr. obtained a defense verdict in Nassau County on behalf of a renowned gastroenterologist who had perforated the colon of his then 50-year-old ulcerative colitis patient during a routine screening...; Defense Verdict In New York County; Following two weeks of trial, HPM&B obtained a unanimous defense verdict in New York County Supreme Court in a wrongful death case brought by the estate of a local nephrologist against a urological...; Defense Verdict In Queens County; Senior Partner Chuck Bach and his team successfully defended a major medical center in a Queens County case brought on behalf of a neurologically impaired infant.During a three week trial, Mr. Bach established that the neonatal team met...; Defense Verdict In New York County; On April 8, 2014, in a case tried by Charles L. Bach, Jr., a New York County jury found no departure on the part of a prominent hand surgeon who was accused of drilling four Kirschner wires or stainless steel pins into a...; Defense Verdict In New York County; Charles L. Bach, Jr., assisted by senior associate Erin K. Kelley, successfully defended a pediatric neurologist in a complex malpractice case in which the plaintiff mother alleged that the treating...