Experienced New Jersey Trial Attorney
Donald Horowitz
Donald Horowitz
Founder
Email: Donald Horowitz | Phone: 201-343-0100
Admitted to practice
Awards and honors
Areas of practice
Founder
Email: Donald Horowitz | Phone: 201-343-0100
Admitted to practice
- New Jersey, 1962
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1962
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit, 1965
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1966
- U.S. Tax Court, 1972
- New York, 1983
- U.S. Claims Court and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1986
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit, 1994
Awards and honors
- 1999 Citation from New Jersey State Senate
- Certificate of Commendation from the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders
- Certificate of Recognition from Bergen County Department of Human Services Alternatives to Domestic Violence
Areas of practice
- Trial practice
- Criminal defense
- Civil litigation
- Business crimes
- Business litigation
- Commercial crimes
- Commercial litigation
- Corporate criminal law
- Corporate litigation
- Federal criminal law
- Federal civil practice
- Drug crimes
- Environmental criminal defense
- Environmental criminal law
- Environmental litigation
- Legal malpractice
- Legal malpractice defense
- Legal negligence
- Legal professional liability
- Professional malpractice
- Professional negligence
- White collar criminal defense
Education
- Columbia University School of Law, LL.B., 1961
- Rutgers University, A.B., 1958
Professional memberships
- Federal Bar Association
Chairman, Newark Chapter, Committee on Citizenship, 1968 – 1969
President, New Jersey Chapter, 1977 – 1978 and 1979 – 1980 - New Jersey State Bar Association
Criminal Law Section
Certified Trial Attorneys Section
Vice-Chairman, 1998 – 1999
Chairman, By-Laws Revision Committee of Young Lawyers Section, 1967 – 1968 Committee on Federal Practice and Procedure, 1976 – 1998 Board of Directors, 1996 – 1998 General Council, 1984 – 1993, 2001 – 2006
Inter-Bar Relations Committee, 1988 – 1989 - Bergen County Bar Association
Criminal Practice and Municipal Court Committees - Association of Trial Lawyers of America
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey
Certification
- Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil and Criminal Trial Attorney
Biography
- Born in New York, New York
- Law Clerk to Hon. Milton B. Conford, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, 1961 – 1962
- Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of New Jersey, 1963 – 1969
Chief of Criminal Division, 1966 – 1968
First Assistant, 1968 – 1969 - U.S. Attorney, District of New Jersey, 1969
- Special Deputy Attorney General, State of New Jersey, 1969 – 1970
- Partner, Cummins, Cummins, Dunn, Horowitz, Rosner & Pashman, 1969 – 1982
- Member, New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Criminal Practice, 1975 – 1979, 1982 – 1983
- Sole Practitioner, Hackensack, New Jersey, 1982 – 1985
- Partner, Horowitz & Jacobs, Hackensack, New Jersey, 1985 – 1989
- Master, The Justice Morris Pashman American Inn of Court, 1989 – 1998
- Principal, Law Offices of Donald Horowitz, Hackensack, New Jersey, 1989 – present
Notable cases
- Lusky v. Capasso, 118 N.J. Super. 369, 287 A.2d 736 (App.Div.1972)
- United States ex rel. Russo v. Superior Court of N.J., 483 F. 2d 7 (3rd Cir.1973), Cert. Denied 94 S. Ct. 447 (1973)
- Quaremba v. Allen, 67 N.J. 1 (1975)
- In re Mahler, 177 N.J. Super. 337 (App.Div.1981)
- Rosenblum v. Adler, 461 A.2d 138, 93 N.J. 324 (1983)
- Rosenblum v. Adler, 535 A.2d 22, 221 N.J. Super. 507 (App.Div.1987)
- United States v, Cusumano, 67 F.3d 1497 (10th Cir.1995)
- Cherrits v. Village of Ridgewood, 710 A.2d 586, 311 N.J. Super. 517 (App.Div.1998)
- State v. Hernandez, 338 N.J. Super. 317, 768 A.2d 1062 (App.Div.2001)
- State v. Banko, 364 N.J. Super. 210, 834 A.2d.1087 (App.Div.2003)
- State v. Banko, 182 N.J. 44 (2004)
