Richard Horowitz, Esq., Principal

      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.  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, Bermuda, Canada, The Cayman Islands, The Czech Republic, England, France, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and Uruguay and is a regular contributor on issues of law, security, and terrorism on Infragard NY TV.  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. Horowitz 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 on the Executive Committee of Investigative & Security Professionals for Legislative Action, a member of the Advisory Panel of Shorex Risk Alert, a 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, The Cayman Islands Journal, Security Management, Competitive Intelligence Review, the Journal of Counterterrorism and Security International, and the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.  
        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 Law.
 

Richard Hartzman, Esq., Of Counsel

        Richard Hartzman has over 20 years experience as an attorney, having worked in a variety of areas of the law, including international and national security law, criminal law, commercial matters, environmental law, rent regulation, and family law.  He has litigated over 50 civil and criminal appeals in the U.S. Supreme Court, the New York Court of Appeals, and the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, including a federal RICO conspiracy case.  In addition, he has handled over 200 judicial review cases in the New York Supreme Court and litigated proceedings before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Interstate Commerce Commission. 

From 1987 to 1997 Mr. Hartzman was Associate Counsel for litigation at the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal where he was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the Commissioner of Housing for developing and implementing a computerized legal brief bank.  He was also an assistant counsel at the New York City Department of Health.  Recently, Mr. Hartzman was appointed to the New York Family Court Appeals Panel. He has been counsel to the Benardete Archive, a non-profit organization established to preserve the scholarly and philosophical work of Seth Benardete, since its inception in 2002. 

Mr. Hartzman is a member of the International Security Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar Association, and has served on the Military Affairs Committee of the Association for which he has prepared extensive reports on matters of national security, one of which was published in the Military Law Review.  From 1993 to 1997 he served as an Observer to the United Nations for the American Society of International Law.  His legal publications include: “John Austin,” 262 Dictionary of Literary Biography 18, 2002; “Inter Arma Silent Leges: In Times of Armed Conflict Should the Laws be Silent?,” 57 Record, ABCNY 39, Winter 2002; “Congressional Control of the Military in a Multilateral Context,” 162 Military Law Review 50, Dec. 1999; “UN Observer Report”, ASIL Newsletter, 1993-1997; "Attorney at Large" column, Meetings & Conventions Magazine, Sept. 1985 to March 1987; "Big Brother is Watching: Espionage at Technical Meetings," Meetings & Conventions Magazine, Sept. 1985; "Nuclear Energy and Civil Liberties," Privacy Report, Feb. 1977; "Private Police in America", Privacy Report, Aug. 1976. 

Mr. Hartzman earned his J.D. degree from the University of Washington School of Law in 1973.  After attending the California Institute of Technology from 1964 to 1966, he received a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Colorado in 1968.  He is admitted to the bar in New York and Colorado.

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

        Lucille A. Roussin is the founder and Director of the Holocaust Restitution Claims Practicum at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, where she also teaches a seminar on Remedies for War Time Confiscation.  She is also in private practice concentrating in Art and Cultural Heritage Law.  She earned her law degree in 1996 from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was a Belkin Scholar.  Dr. Roussin was Deputy Research Director of the Art and Cultural Property Team of the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the US and was an associate in the Art and International Law Practice Group at Herrick, Feinstein LLP in New York City.  In 2001 she negotiated the first restitution of a rare Jewish ritual object to a private family in the United States, and has negotiated an insurance settlement for a world renowned set designer who portfolio had been destroyed in a flood.  She also teaches a course on “Art, the Law and Professional Ethics” in the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

        Dr. Roussin earned a Ph.D. in Art History & Archaeology from Columbia University and was a Fulbright scholar in Israel in 1974-75.  She has written and lectured extensively on archaeological subjects and is currently a member of the Cultural Properties Legislation and Policy Committee of the Archaeological Institute of America, Co-Chair of the Art and Cultural Heritage Committee of the Section of International Law and Practice of the American Bar Association, a member of the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association, and a member of the board of the Lawyer's Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation.  Dr. Roussin is a frequent lecturer on Holocaust-era looted art and provenance research.  Her recent publications include “Cultural Heritage and Identity,” 11 Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law 707 (2003) and  “Holocaust-Era Looted Art: The Route into the United States,” in the International Foundation for Art Research Journal, Vol.5 (2002)