Course Information
Course Description
The courtroom creates many ethical questions and challenges. Zealously advocating for your clients without violating any ethical rules is a constant challenge. This updated program, presented by seasoned litigator Moshe Horn, will use several real-life scenarios to analyze the ethical choices and boundaries that trial lawyers commonly face. The program will discuss the ethics of witness preparation, cross-examination, comments in closing arguments, evidential challenges, jury selection, and more. Lastly, the course will explore strategies to maximize tactical advantages in the courtroom while still staying within the boundaries of the ethical guidelines.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the ethical choices that trial lawyers most often face
- Examine real-life scenarios to analyze how to ethically address many common challenges
- Explore how to address ethical questions related to the different states of trial advocacy including witness preparation, cross-examination, jury selection, closing arguments, and more
- Maximize tactical advantages in the courtroom while remaining compliant with ethical guideline
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Faculty
Moshe Horn
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Moshe Horn has earned a national reputation as a trial lawyer as well as an insightful trial strategist, and is skilled in the nuances of jury research and selection in both civil and criminal matters. Moshe is a founding partner of the litigation boutique, Gitlin Horn, & Van De Kieft. specializing in all aspects of trial work. Moshe has tried over 100 jury trials and is one of the few lawyers to have tried criminal cases both as a prosecutor and a defense attorney , and civil cases both as plaintiffs attorney and a defense attorney. additionally moshe is one of the few lawyers who ah tried a class action case to verdict. this unique experience gives Moshe the ability to see a trial from every angle. Moshe has numerous 7 figure plaintiffs verdicts and has achieved superlawyers and best lawyers of New York status many times. Moshe has been an adjunct professor of law at Cardozo law school for 20 years and is a frequent lecturer on trial strategy for lawline, marino, and AAJ. Moshe is also a frequent lecturer to schools and parent groups on issues confronting todays teens and the legal and social issue that they confront.
After graduating Cardozo law school, Moshe spent a decade as an Assistant District Attorney (ADA) in the Manhattan District Attorney's office where he tried more than fifty jury trials to verdict, achieving one of the highest conviction rates in the Manhattan office. He achieved successful outcomes in cases of both violent and white collar crime, including homicides, sex crimes, kidnapping, money laundering and extortion. In addition, he served as a member of the Sex Crimes Unit and the Asian Gang Unit, as well as a domestic violence coordinator in his trial bureau, and his work resulted in numerous grand jury indictments, many of which required advanced wiretapping techniques and the use of undercover officers. He also regularly participated in the office trial advocacy training program and supervised many young lawyers in their development as litigators.
Moshe transferred this vast trial knowledge into the practice of products liability and mass tort litigation at Kaye Scholer, a leading New York law firm, where he worked on products liability and commercial and white collar litigation matters. At Kaye Scholer Moshe served as a primary trial strategist, bearing active responsibility for the preparation and execution of numerous focus groups and mock trials, as well as the conception and development of advanced trial graphics and jury questionnaires. During his tenure there, Moshe served on the trial teams for numerous mass tort trials including pharmaceutical, asbestos and commercial trials.
To continue his focus on mass tort litigation, Moshe joined Seeger Weiss, and was a member of the trial team that achieved a $47.5 million verdict against Merck for a client's Vioxx related injuries. He contributes broadly to the firm's commercial litigation practice and handles private criminal and personal injury matters as well. He regularly interfaces with jury consultants and conducts mock jury exercises, and consequently can share his insight about juries with current clients.
Reviews
This attorney gave great real life examples and his talk was very interesting.
Entertaining stories - easy to listen to and learn from.
excellent. thought provoking.
very good
Excellent speaker
Moshe's presentation was very easy to follow and listen to.
Great examples to make it clear!
At last! An ethics course that’s absolutely riveting. Highly recommended.
I appreciated his reference to The Practice!
Very interesting and well done; the examples were great and thought provoking.
Great professor; Great war stories.
Excellent. Loved the practical advice and interesting real life anecdotes.
One of the best CLE ethics presentations I have ever viewed--great job!
Mosh Horn has an excellent demeanor well-suited for trial work. He is intelligent, warm, and engaging - a natural teacher, and therefore, natural trial lawyer.
Great course with relevant real-life examples. Highly recommended.
Excellent--one of the best lectures you have offered.
Very interesting and informative! Great presenter!
GREAT PRESENTATION!
Exceptional presentation! But on the wheelchair, I used to prosecute. My 2 cents-I would have on the fly simply said to the witness, Ms. xxx, I know you arrived in a wheelchair, but would you please step into the witness stand? :)
One of the most interesting ethics courses I have taken.
Well presented; kept me engaged and interested in the material. Good to use real world actual examples!
Best course I have taken since joining. Practical and necessary information for trial attorneys. Fantastic.
Excellent ethical discussions.
Excellent presentation by an obvious trial lawyer. I enjoyed this course.
The speaker presented the information in a very interesting and informative manner.
Excellent presentation of what can be difficult issues and decisions.
Excellent!!
Mr. Horn is exceptional speaker, with his superb knowledge of the subject matter, injection of real life examples and engaging speaking style.
EXCELLENT! Have presenter do more LawLine CLE classes!
Excellent presenter and examples.
One of the better courses I have had so far.
excellent
Great lecture -- enjoyed it.
Excellent
This guy is great! loved him.
Very Good!
Superb speaker and presentation.
Excellent course with very interesting real-world examples of actual and potential ethical issues facing trial lawyers.
Fascinating discussion with real world examples. Very interesting.
Valuable scenarios illustrating the points discussed.
Great teacher!
great presentation
Excellent!
One of the better CLEs/speakers I've attended! I'd like to watch more with this presenter. Thank you!
Excellent, engaging, a must for any litigator!
That is my kind of trial lawyer. thank you.
Top-tier CLE. Great use of personal stories and case studies to discuss ethics. Very practical.
Good program
Nice how the instructor used real life scenarios to apply the Rules under discussion.
The speaker did a brilliant job of illustrating the various types of ethical issues that can arise in proceedings. I hope he gets the chance to offer another course on a different aspect of trial advocacy.
Very engaging speaker
Best CLE in 2 years
very good, knowledgeable lecturer.
This is a great class! Real life combined with the rules . Real life is the best teacher! Thank you!
Great presenter. Very useful and interesting
This was definitely one of the better programs I have attended.
I appreciated hearing some different scenarios as I’m a transactional practitioner who avoids court at all costs.
Excellent. Very interesting examples. Really kept my attention and made the issues memorable. Thanks.
Great real life examples, great overall tone.
Great examples.
Very interesting. Used real life examples to make his points in an interesting manner.
This was the best ethics CLE I have ever done.
Excellent
Great presenter, excellent content, very engaging.
Excellent course.
Great
Excellent speaker. One of the best on lawline yet. Great practical and real life topic and examples.. Excellent course!
Practical!
Very interesting. Great presentation. Engaging speaker.
Great, informative and well organized.
excellent and logical, organized presentation
Very talented presenter. I will look for his courses again.
this was really interesting and dare I say even fun
This was a good course.
Great course! The examples and hypotheticals were compelling.
Excellent presenter and useful practical points backed with substantive law. Thanks!
This instructor certainly knows how to keep our interest.
Great presentation!
Great speaker!
This was an excellent presentation!
One of the best lectures I have watched.
Thanks.
Super engaging!