STEVEN J. GROSS

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PRACTICE DESCRIPTION:

Mr. Gross' practice area focuses upon insurance coverage analysis including personal lines coverages, commercial lines coverages and umbrella/excess coverage.  Mr. Gross' practice includes the defense of insurance companies against claims of bad faith claim handling and punitive damages.

EDUCATION AND SCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES:

Arizona State University, College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2005)

• Arizona State Law Journal, Staff
• Arizona State Bar Tax Scholarship (2005)
• William H. Pedrick Scholar
• CALI Excellence for the Future Awards: Civil Rights Legislation, Criminal Law, and Contracts
• Arizona State College of Law Academic Success Program Tutor: Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, and Contracts
• Dean's Advisory Committee on Student Recruitment
• Pro bono Executive Board, Member

Arizona State University, Barrett Honors College (B.A. Economics, summa cum laude and "With Honors," 2002)

• Honor's Thesis:"A Comparison of Student Achievement of Athletes and Non-Athletes, Tempe High School 2000-2001."
• Undergraduate Research Assistant
• Diablo Scholarship

JUDICIAL LAW CLERKSHIPS and INTERNSHIPS:

• Judicial Extern to the Honorable Lawrence O. Anderson, United States District Court

PUBLICATIONS:

• Mr. Gross is co-authoring the chapter on Assault and Battery, and solely authoring the chapter on Business Torts for the soon to be published Arizona Tort Law Handbook.
• Claims for Embezzlement of Client Funds, DRI for the Defense, Vol. 49, No. 3 (March 2007).
• Medical Payments Coverage: A Policy Inside A Policy, Ins. Litigation Rptr. Vol. 28, Number 14 (2006).
• Co-authored chapter 10 allocation and trigger of coverage theories for DRI hard bound treatise on construction coverage to be published summer of 2008.
• Authored chapter on excess insurer's duty to defend for Couch On Insurance 3d., a nationally recognized authoritive treatise on insurance law.