Mr. Gross is a graduate of the Cornell School of Industrial Labor Relations and the Cornell Law School. He has been actively involved in representing our school districts and college clients for over thirty years. In addition to an active litigation and appellate court practice, Mr. Gross frequently litigates before the Commissioner of Education, teacher tenure discharge tribunals, the State Division of Human Rights, labor arbitration proceedings and the Public Employment Relations Board.
Mr. Gross has addressed numerous organizations and participated in a great number of seminars and instructional programs concerning public sector labor relations and education law. In addition, Mr. Gross has taught courses on the subjects of education law, collective bargaining, and labor law, and has participated in seminars on education law and labor negotiations throughout the country. He has served as an adjunct professor with New York University and as a member of the faculty of the Cornell University Industrial and Labor Relations Program in New York City.
Mr. Gross is past President of the 3,500 member Suffolk County Bar Association. Mr. Gross is an elected member of the New York State Bar Association Executive Committee and a member of the Association's Finance Committee. He has served as Chairperson of the New York State Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. In 1999, New York State Chief Judge Judith Kaye honored Mr. Gross with her appointment of him as a founding member of the New York State Judicial Institute on Professionalism in the Law. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Bar Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the New York State Bar Association and he is the Treasurer of the New York State Fair Trial-Free Press Conference. Mr. Gross is a member of the Suffolk County, Nassau County, Westchester County Associations, as well as the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
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