Mr. Gross is a graduate of the Cornell School of Industrial Labor Relations and the Cornell Law School. He has been actively involved in representing school districts, colleges, non-profit organizations and municipalities in matters involving municipal law, education law, public sector labor law, employment law and corporate matters as general and labor counsel for over forty years. In addition to having an active court litigation and appellate practice, Mr. Gross frequently litigates appeals before the Commissioner of Education, teacher tenure discharge tribunals, the State Division of Human Rights, labor, commercial and construction arbitration tribunals, the courts, and the New York State Public Employment Relations Board. He has negotiated scores of labor contracts during the past thirty years. He has represented chief school officers including a Chancellor of the City School District of the City of New York and several Superintendents of large city school districts throughout the country. Mr. Gross has addressed numerous organizations and has participated in a great number of seminars and instructional programs concerning municipal law, public sector labor relations, labor negotiations and education law. In addition, Mr. Gross has taught courses on the subjects of education law, collective bargaining, and labor law. He has served as an adjunct professor with New York University and as a member of the faculty of the Cornell University Industrial and Labor Relations Program in New York City. Mr. Gross served as President of the 3,500 member Suffolk County Bar Association. He has been a member of the New York State Bar Association House of Delegates, its statewide Nominating Committee, and has served as Suffolk County Bar Association's delegate to the American Bar Association. He is a member of the Suffolk, Nassau and Westchester County Bar Associations and the American Bar Association. He served as Chairperson of the New York State Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. In 1999, New York State Chief Judge Judith Kaye appointed him a founding member of the New York State Judicial Institute on Professionalism in the Law. Mr. Gross continues as a board member of that organization. He is the Treasurer of the New York State Fair Trial-Free Press Conference. He has served for several years as a member of the House of Delegates and the Finance Committee of the New York State Bar Association. Mr. Gross was a member at large of the New York State Bar Association Executive Committee and thereafter served for three years as the Vice President of the State Bar Association for the Tenth Judicial District. Mr. Gross is counsel to the Suffolk County Bar Association and has represented the New York State Bar Association. He is counsel to the Suffolk County Board of Ethics. He is President of the New York Bar Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the New York State Bar Association.

Mr. Gross is married and resides in Northport. He served as an officer in the United States Army, Military Police Corps. Mr. Gross is the Senior Managing Partner of Ingerman Smith, L.L.P.