Mr. Mo has extensive investigative and jury trial experience, including supervising numerous complex financial fraud and internal police corruption investigations and first chairing over fifty federal/state criminal and civil jury trials. He also presided as Chief Administrative Judge in over 300 administrative trials in the NYPD. For the last 15 years, he has served as a Referee for the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, in which he presides at investigative and due process hearings involving judicial misconduct. He is the Founder/President Emeritus/Chair of the NYPD Asian American Police Executives Council (AAPEX), with the mission to inculcate leadership development of Asian police executives in the NYPD. He also served on the NYPD Training Advisory Committee. He was also a legal commentator on Court TV (now TruTV) and for various Chinese-language news media.

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Mr. Mo’s extensive community and political involvement includes serving as an “outside validator” at the request of The Clinton White House during Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s June 2009 Senate confirmation hearings (see politico.com, 06/02/2009, Real-World Skill Prepped Nominee); serving on the transition committees of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, New York City Comptroller John C. Liu (currently New York State Senator), and serving as both chairman of the Criminal Justice Advisory Council for David N. Dinkins’s Mayoral Campaign and subsequently as a member of Mayor-elect Dinkins’s transition committee..

Over the past 50 years, Mr. Mo has also served as a board member of a variety of community and social engagement organizations, including Community Board No. 1 in Manhattan, Flushing YMCA, member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, as well as various government policy committees. He also co-founded various civic and community organizations, including the Chinatown Health Clinic (predecessor to the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center), NYPD Asian Jade Society, and the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY).

Mr. Mo is a life-member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and has served as a member of various committees with the New York City Bar Association, including the Judiciary Committee. He was born in Shanghai, China, came to the States at the age of 9, grew up on the Lower East Side of New York, and attended Stuyvesant High School. He received his B.A. in History and Political Science from New York University, University Heights College, and J.D. from Boston University School of Law. He is married and has three children, two of which are members of the Bar and also graduates of BU Law. His daughter Elizabeth served as a Manhattan ADA for almost six years, his older son Hugh Jr. is an entrepreneur, and his younger son Douglas is a litigator in BigLaw. Mr. Mo is fluent in Chinese Mandarin, and has traveled extensively on business to China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.