 Wayne R. Gross Adjunct Professor of Law Chapman University School of Law
Wayne R. Gross is a litigation partner at Snell & Wilmer, where he focuses on trial practice, corporate crisis management, internal investigations, complex civil litigation, intellectual property litigation, and white collar criminal defense. The Orange County Register recently described Mr. Gross as a "dream team" defense lawyer. Before joining Snell & Wilmer, Mr. Gross served as Chief of the Southern Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California and prosecuted cases of national and international significance, including the UCI Fertility case, the Katarina Witt stalker case, and one of the first criminal trademark infringement cases brought to trial in Southern California. In addition to serving as a federal prosecutor in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mr. Gross also served as a civil litigator in the Affirmative Civil Enforcement Section, a specialized unit of the Civil Division. Mr. Gross successfully pursued multi-million dollar civil litigation, including a False Claims Act lawsuit against a global engineering and construction firm, and obtained one of the largest civil fraud recoveries in the history of the Central District. Mr. Gross' primary area of emphasis in both the Criminal and Civil Divisions was complex fraud work, for which he was presented with awards by two U.S. Attorneys General and the Director of the F.B.I. Mr. Gross has lectured at law schools and colleges throughout Southern California. He served as a law clerk for Central District Judge Laughlin E. Waters. Mr. Gross received his law degree, magna cum laude, from Hastings College of the Law, where he served as a Notes Editor for The Hastings Law Journal. Mr. Gross serves on the Board of Directors of the Orange County Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association of Orange County, and the Constitutional Rights Foundation. He also served as chair of the Professionalism and Ethics Committee of the Orange County Bar Association. |
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