Richard Gruner, JD, LLM
Professor of Law and Director, Center for Intellectual Property Law
John Marshall Law School
Chicago, IL

Richard S. Gruner is a Professor of Law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, where he teaches and writes on corporate law, white collar crime, and intellectual property.  He is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology (B.S. 1975), the USC Law School (J.D. 1978), and the Columbia Law School (L.L.M. 1982).  Professor Gruner is a former inside counsel to the IBM Corporation and consultant to the U.S. Sentencing Commission concerning corporate sentencing standards.  He served as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Advisory Group on the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines, which produced recommendations for changes in the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines that were incorporated in amendments implemented by the Sentencing Commission in 2004.  Professor Gruner is the coauthor with Louis M. Brown and Anne Kandel of The Legal Audit (1990), published by West Group and updated yearly.  His latest book on compliance topics, Corporate Criminal Liability and Prevention, was published by Law Journal Press in 2004 and is updated twice each year.