Richard S Gruner

Richard S. Gruner is a former inside counsel to the IBM Corporation and consultant to the U.S. Sentencing Commission concerning corporate sentencing standards. He is a co-author with Louis M. Brown and Anne Kandel of The Legal Audit (1990), published by West Corporation, and is also the author of numerous articles on corporate crime and organizational systems for crime prevention. He was the Reporter for the National Center for Preventive Law's (NCPL's) Corporate Compliance Principles. Mr....See more

Richard S. Gruner is a former inside counsel to the IBM Corporation and consultant to the U.S. Sentencing Commission concerning corporate sentencing standards. He is a co-author with Louis M. Brown and Anne Kandel of The Legal Audit (1990), published by West Corporation, and is also the author of numerous articles on corporate crime and organizational systems for crime prevention. He was the Reporter for the National Center for Preventive Law's (NCPL's) Corporate Compliance Principles. Mr. Gruner is presently a Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and a Professor of Law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois. He is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology (B.S. 1975), the USC Law School (J.D. 1978), and Columbia Law School (LL.M. 1982). Professor Gruner served as a member of the United States Sentencing Commission's Advisory Group on the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines. The Advisory Group's recommendations for changes in corporate sentencing criteria and standards for evaluating law compliance programs formed the basis for new organizational sentencing guidelines promulgated by the Sentencing Commission in 2004. See less