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Jackie L. Gross

Jackie Gross is a Deputy County Attorney and Senior Counsel for the County of Nassau in New York State.  Ms. Gross primarily handles appeals for the County's Appeals Bureau, drafts legal documents for the County and provides counseling in the areas of federal and state transportation law and municipal law generally.  In her previous role as counsel to the Nassau County Planning Commissio, Ms. Gross managed the first full update of the Planning Commission's County Charter provisions and regulations in more than 50 years.  Ms. Gross also assisted in the re-creation of, and provided legal support to, the Long Island Regional Planning Council

Prior to joining the County Attorney's office, Ms. Gross was a Senior Attorney with the international technology company NEC, responsible for corporate legal matters, including compliance, contract drafting, litigation, employment law and other legal matters relating to the technology industry.  Before that, Ms. Gross was a Senior Attorney at the Long Island Rail Road, handling litigation and counseling in the areas of transportation law, ethics compliance, real estate law, employment law, technology law, and the other corporate law matters.  She was also a litigation associate with two mid-sized New York City law firms, handling both civil and white-collar criminal litigation matters.

Ms. Gross is currently an adjunct professor at SUNY Old Westbury on Long Island, teaching the Ethics of Engagement to first year students.  She is also a member of the New York State Bar Association (Member and Technology Subcommittee Chair - Committee on Attorneys in Public Service, and blogger for the CAPS blog at http//nysbar.com/blogs/CAPS/) and the Nassau County Bar Association (Member - Appellate Committee).  Previously, Ms. Gross was the Long Island leader of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s GreaterNew York chapter.  Ms. Gross received a J.D. degree cum laude from New York Law School, where she was an editor of the Law Review and a Moot Court finalist, and she received a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.  Before law school, Ms. Gross was a writer, producer and production engineer in the entertainment industry.