Professor Jill I. Gross, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, is a nationally known expert in the field of securities dispute resolution, and teaches courses in the areas of dispute resolution, ethics, securities law and lawyering skills. She was the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law, a two-year rotating endowed Chair, from 2013鈥2015, Director of the Investor Rights Clinic from 1999鈥2015, and Director of Legal Skills Programs from 2010鈥2015. She also has taught at Cornell Law School, UNLV鈥檚 Boyd School of Law and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
She is the co-editor of the forthcoming book, The Federal Arbitration Act: Successes, Failures, and a Roadmap for Reform (Cambridge University Press 2024). She is an author of the preeminent treatise, Broker-Dealer Law and Regulation (Wolters Kluwer 5th ed. 2018, annually updated) (with J. Fanto and N. Poser), and the casebook Arbitration: Law, Policy and Practice (Carolina Academic Press 2018, 2d ed. 2024). She has published dozens of book chapters and articles on the negotiation, mediation and arbitration of securities and other commercial disputes. She is a former Senior Contributing Editor to the Securities Online Litigation Alert. She has chaired the AALS Section of Dispute Resolution, the Securities ADR Committee of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution and the Practising Law Institute鈥檚 annual Securities Arbitration program. She is an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, FINRA Dispute Resolution Services, and the National Futures Association. She is a former public member of the FINRA National Arbitration and Mediation Committee and the Securities Experts Roundtable. She has been quoted dozens of times in the national media, and retained as an expert in securities arbitrations, litigations and enforcement proceedings.
Before entering legal education, Professor Gross was an attorney in the New York City firms of Kaye Scholer LLP, Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Silberberg, and Parcher Hayes & Snyder, representing clients in white collar criminal and securities enforcement proceedings, securities arbitrations, and other commercial litigation. She received an A.B. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Cornell University and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.
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In March 2024, I traveled to Vienna, Austria for the first time to represent Haub Law on the 鈥淰erein,鈥 known more formally as the 鈥淎ssociation for the Organization and Promotion of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.鈥 The Vis Moot is the world鈥檚 largest international commercial arbitration student competition, with teams from hundreds of law schools and countries around the world.
Professor Jill Gross is quoted by Financial Advisor IQ regarding pressure on the SEC to loosen the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority鈥檚 control of securities-industry arbitration from Thrivent, a Finra member firm.