A Practical Approach to the Rules of Evidence
Faculty: Gerald Shargel and Henry Mazurek
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In this program, Gerald Shargel and Henry Mazurek discuss current issues in Evidence law. This question and answer format provides useful information from two experienced attorneys who provide practical knowledge of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
I. Relevance
II. State v. Federal Rules
III. FRE 403
IV. FRE 608 (b)
V. Hearsay Exceptions
VI. Common Mistakes in the Courtroom
Lecturers:
Gerald Shargel and Henry Mazurek
Gerald Shargel
Gerald L. Shargel, a member of the New York Bar since 1969, limits his practice to the defense of serious criminal cases. Over the past several decades, Mr. Shargel has handled numerous high profile cases at both the trial and appellate level. Cases typically include a broad array of white collar and non-white collar crimes. Since 1981, Mr. Shargel has been profiled in local and national publications, including the New Yorker and the New York Times. Mr. Shargel has also contributed articles and opinion pieces to the New York Times, the Daily News, the Los Angeles Times and the online magazine Slate.
In addition to his caseload, Mr. Shargel devotes considerable time to teaching and lecturing. He is currently the Practitioner-In-Residence at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches Evidence and Criminal Procedure. Widely regarded as a master of cross examination, Mr. Shargel recently contributed a chapter to Take the Witness: The Experts Speak on Cross Examination.
In a 1994 New Yorker profile, Mr. Shargel was described as “one of the most brilliant criminal defense attorneys in America… quite possibly the finest of his generation.” Mr. Shargel was recently honored by the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, who presented him with the Thurgood Marshall Award for outstanding criminal law practitioner.
Mr. Shargel graduated from Rutgers University in 1966 and Brooklyn Law School in 1969.
Henry Mazurek
Prior to joining Mr. Shargel’s firm, Mr. Mazurek was an associate at the New York law firm of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, LLP, where he specialized in white collar criminal defense. At Kramer Levin, Mr. Mazurek helped obtain a favorable result for a Fortune 500 C.E.O. charged with accounting fraud. He also was selected to join the Criminal Justice Act Panel in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Mr. Mazurek began his career as a trial lawyer at the Federal Defenders Office in San Diego, California. During his tenure as a Federal Defender, Mr. Mazurek tried more than twenty federal criminal cases, earning several acquittals. While holding that position, he drafted sections of a national training manual, entitled Defending a Federal Criminal Case (1998). Mr. Mazurek has also taught seminars for the International Law Institute in China and Mongolia on United States and international money laundering regulations. Prior to joining the San Diego Federal Defenders Office, Mr. Mazurek served as a law clerk to the Honorable Franklin S. van Antwerpen in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and spent two years as an associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Swidler & Berlin.
Mr. Mazurek received his B.S. degree from Georgetown University graduating summa cum laude and was awarded class valedictorian. He graduated from Harvard Law School, receiving his J.D. degree in 1993.
Mr. Mazurek is a member of the state bars of New York, New Jersey, California and Washington, D.C. He is also a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Association of the Bar for the City of New York and the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association.
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