Member Spotlight: Jerry Grossman

Jerome A. (Jerry) Grossman has been a member of the Business Law Section  for over 30 years.   He is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section and currently serves as an advisor to that Committee.  He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Section’s Opinions  Committee, a member of the Business Law News Editorial Board, and a member of the Commercial Transactions Committee (formerly the UCC Committee).  He was a member of the UCC Committee from 1995 to 2000, serving as Chair during his last year, and coordinating the writing and publication of an article for the Business Law News analyzing certain aspects of the 1998 major revision of UCC Article 9.  Jerry joined the newly formed Opinions Task Force (now the Opinions Committee) in 2001.  He was the reporter for Appendix 10 to its first publication, the 2004 Report on Third-Party Remedies Opinions, analyzing more than 30 of the most commonly taken qualifications to such opinions, and is currently working on an update to that Appendix.  He has been active in the Working Group on Legal Opinions (https://www.wglo.net/) since its inception in 2005.  Jerry was inducted into the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers in 2010.  He is a coauthor, with Edith R. Warkentine (retired Professor at the Western State College of Law), of Secured Transactions: A Context and Practice Casebook (2d ed. 2024).

Jerry received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 1981. For a year, he clerked for the Hon. Edward J. Schwartz, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, in San Diego.  He then joined Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, where, among other assignments, he spent two years in as an associate in their Hong Kong Office. Besides Heller Ehrman, Jerry has served as special counsel to Dewey Ballantine, a partner with Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, and senior counsel with Gresham Savage Nolan & Tilden.  For the past three and a half years, he has been Of Counsel to Fennemore, where he contemplates staying for the foreseeable future.

For the past 25 years, Jerry has co-authored the CEB Action Guide: Enforcing Security Interests in Personal Property.  He also teaches and lectures frequently on UCC issues, especially Article 9.