Biography
Marjorie E. Gross practices law in New York City, focusing on the regulation of banking and capital markets activities. She was General Counsel of the New York State Banking Department from June 2007 through September 2011, served as Interim General Counsel of TD Bank N.A. during 2012 and was a Managing Director and Associate General Counsel at JPMorgan Chase Bank for 15 years, heading the Debt Capital Markets Group in the Legal Division.
Ms. Gross has been active in the fields of legal and judicial ethics since 1986. She has been a member of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics since 199 and has chaired that committee since September 2014. She served on the Committee on Professional Responsibility of the New York County Lawyers' Association from 1988 to 1996, and chaired that Committee from 1988 to 1991. She was an Advisor to the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers from 1999 to 2001. She was a lecturer in Professional Responsibility at Columbia University Law School from 1986 to 1991 and lectures frequently on legal ethics.
Ms. Gross also served from 2003 through 2009 on the New York State Bar Association Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct (COSAC), which proposed the Rules of Professional Conduct, and represented then-Chief Judge Judith Kaye on the committee that assisted the Administrative Board in promulgating the Rules of Professional Conduct in 2009.
Ms. Gross is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Georgetown University Law Center.