Richard Horowitz & Associates
Attorneys at Law
450 Seventh Avenue
9th Floor

New York, NY 10123
Tel: (212) 829-8196
Fax:(212) 813-3214
rhorowitz@rhesq.com

            Of Counsel
            Richard Hartzman, Esq.
            
Dr. Lucille A. Roussin, Esq.


            Test Your Investigative Knowledge

            An Investigative Technique to Locate Banks for Judgment Creditors
            A Comment on Drafting Corporate Competitive Intelligence Policies

Publications: Competitive Intelligence     Terrorism, Money Laundering, and National Security

BIO
  Richard Horowitz is an attorney concentrating in corporate, international, and security matters.  He is admitted to practice law in New York and the District of Columbia and has passed the Israeli bar examinations.  Mr. Horowitz  is also a licensed private investigator and a recognized expert in the areas of corporate intelligence, fraud, and international investigations. He has provided legal assistance and investigative and consulting services to companies from various industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, computer and software, and aviation.   Mr. Horowitz served in the Israel Defense Forces for six years, attaining the rank of captain, where he researched, planned, and implemented national security projects.  He also pursued graduate and fellowship studies in international relations at New York University and Columbia University.
       
Mr. Horowitz is a noted and frequent speaker on the methods and mentality of terrorism and the West's difficulty in grasping the threat, trade secret law and the legal aspects of acquiring competitive intelligence, and money laundering schemes and investigations.  He has spoken at conferences in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, The Cayman Islands, The Czech Republic, England, France, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and Uruguay.  He was the terrorism consultant on Fox New York during the week of September 11, has testified to the Public Safety Committee of the New York City Council on post-September 11 security in New York, and has also appeared on NBC, MSNBC, and the Fox News Channel.  In 2009 Mr. However was invited to participate in a 30 expert seminar on human rights and terrorism co-sponsored by the Spanish Foreign Ministry, the Council of Europe, the Club of Madrid, and the Valsaín Foundation.
      Mr. Horowitz served as security consultant for a public relations event held in 1993 for Bosnia under the auspices of the president of the United Nations General Assembly and has prepared educational material for the U.S. Department of Defense.  He is a member of the Advisory Panel of Shorex Risk Alert,
financial intelligence and risk management service, a member of the steering committee of the Business Threat Awareness Council, and has served as a member of the International Security Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar Association, the Trade Secrets and Interference with Contracts Committee of the American Bar Association, and the Economic Crime Council of the American Society for Industrial Security. 
     Mr. Horowitz is the founder and editor of InternationalSecurityResources.com and authored the entry on the Patriot Act in the Encyclopedia of Terrorism (SAGE Publications).  He is also the author of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professional's (SCIP) Policy Analysis on Competitive Intelligence and the Economic Espionage Act, has advised SCIP on the revision of its Code of Ethics, and is on the faculty of the Fuld Gilad Herring Academy of Competitive Intelligence where he lectures on the legal aspects of competitive intelligence.  He has been published in Money Laundering Alert, Competitive Intelligence Review, the Journal of Counterterrorism and Security International, and the
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
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        Mr. Horowitz holds a B.A. in political science from Yeshiva University, an M.A. from the Department of Politics of New York University studying international relations, a Mortimer Zuckerman Fellowship at Columbia University's Graduate School of International and Public Affairs, and a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of La
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WORLD POLICY INSTITUTE
BLOG POSTING

Pan Am 103, Revisited, posted on August 28, 2008


SELECTED MEDIA AND
      OTHER INTERVIEWS 
     

Review of Richard Horowitz's Presentation at the Annual Convention of the Special Libraries Association, June 16, 2008

Ethics, Open Sources, and CI, a blog entry on The Net-Savvy Executive interview posted on March 21, 2007

Radio interview on the post-September 11th terrorist threat, WOR (New York), March 11, 2007

NDAs and Other Legal Considerations When Interviewing New Employees from Competitors, Interview with Rivalscape Intelligence Consultants, August 2004

Radio interview on the Sami al-Arian case, WMAL (Washington, DC), August 22, 2002

 

ON NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, Cardozo Law Forum, March 21, 1995

WHY ISRAEL ARGUES ABOUT KING DAVID, Letter to the Editor, New York Times, January 2, 1995

 

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PUBLICATIONS AND  DOCUMENTS

 

Competitive Intelligence

SCIP Policy Analysis on Competitive Intelligence and the Economic Espionage Act

Correspondence with FBI Deputy General Counsel on the SCIP EEA Policy Analysis, February 1999

Correspondence with former SCIP Ethics Chair on the Revision of SCIP's Code of Ethics, September - October 1999

National Law Journal article on SCIP's Policy Analysis on CI and the EEA, March 29, 2000

The Legal Aspects of Trade Show Intelligence, in Conference and Trade Show Intelligence: Protecting and Gathering Information, published by The Competitive Intelligence Foundation, 2007

Presentation at a Meeting of the Business Threat Awareness Council, June 23, 2005

Forging a Strategic Alliance with Your Legal Department, with Jan Herring, Competitive Intelligence Magazine, March-April 2004

CI, Law, and Ethics: The EEA Revisited, Competitive Intelligence Magazine, November-December 2003

Industrial Spy, Moi?: An Opposing View, originally posted on CIO.com, March 18, 2002

The Economic Espionage Act: The Rules Have Not Changed, Competitive Intelligence Review, July-August 1998

Competitive Intelligence Workshop and Seminar, with Jan Herring

 

 

Terrorism, National Security, and Money Laundering  

The Global Anti-Money Laundering Regime: A Short Overview,
The Cayman Islands Journal, January 2010

Statement at a European Seminar on Human Rights and Terrorism, co-sponsored by the Spanish Foreign Ministry, the Council of Europe, the Club of Madrid, and the Valsain Foundation, Malaga, Spain, October, 2009

What Private-Sector Security Directors Need to Know About Pre-Employment Drug Testing, Security Director, Spring 2009

Understanding U.S. Counterterrorism Policy: Background and Resources, posted on the website of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (Athens, www.rieas.gr), December 2006.  Website requires registration for access.

Presentation at a Meeting of the Business Threat Awareness Council, June 23, 2005

Remarks at Negotiating With Terrorists And Non-State Actors, Symposium held at the Cardozo School of Law, February 11, 2003

Summary of Key Sections of the USA Patriot Act

Testimony to the Public Safety Committee of the New York City Council, November 27, 2001

Selected Headlines: The International Problem of Islamic Terrorism, January-June 1999, Journal of Counterterrorism & Security International, Winter 1999

A Framework for Understanding Intelligence, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Winter 1995

Security Directors Aid Bank KYC, SAR Duties, Money Laundering Alert, August 1997

The Low Down on Dirty Money, Security Management, October 1997

Intelligence Summit