Professor Karen Gross to Write Regular Column for Westchester and Fairfield Business Journals

Column, “Money Sense,” to Explore Financial Topics for Business Professionals

NEW YORK, February 14, 2006 --- Professor Karen Gross of New York Law School has begun writing a regular column, “Money Sense,” for the Westchester County (New York) Business Journal and Fairfield County (Connecticut) Business Journal. Her column, which appears every other week, will explore various topics within Gross’s specialty areas of financial literacy, bankruptcy, overindebtedness, and commercial law. Her first column, titled “Employee Fiscal Health: It Matters More than You Know,” appeared on February 13, 2006.

Gross has been a professor at New York Law School for more than 20 years, teaching courses in bankruptcy, contracts, and financial advocacy, among others. She is also president of the Coalition for Consumer Bankruptcy Debtor Education, an award-winning pro bono organization she cofounded, and director of New York Law School’s Economic Literacy Consortium. She speaks frequently in the United States and abroad on consumer finance, economic literacy, and bankruptcy-related issues. She has conducted empirical and historical research on consumer finance and bankruptcy, worked with individual debtors as a volunteer lawyer at New York’s Legal Aid Society, and written numerous scholarly articles. She is the author of the book Failure and Forgiveness: Rebalancing the Bankruptcy System (Yale University Press, 1997), which won the Association of American Publishers’ 1997 Business Management Award. In 2004, Gross received a Senior Scholar Special Commendation of Honor from the American Association of University Women (AAUW).

A Westchester County resident, Gross is a member of the Foundation Board of Open Door Family Medical Centers, headquartered in Ossining.

The Westchester County Business Journal and the Fairfield County Business Journal are the only business-to-business weekly publications in either county. They serve a readership of local and regional business owners, partners, professionals, and top executives. Their content includes reports on breaking news, emerging trends in leading industries, business success stories, and profiles of interesting business people. The circulation of the Westchester County Business Journal is more than 14,000 and the circulation for the Fairfield County Business Journal is nearly 13,000. Weekly readership for both publications is more than 80,000.

The two journals are published by Westfair Communications Inc., based in White Plains, New York.

“We are honored that Professor Gross has agreed to be a columnist for our publications,” said Dee DelBello, publisher of both journals. “She had been well known to us for her record of accomplishment as a legal scholar and educator and her expertise in financial topics. She is also a resident of Westchester County and she knows just what kinds of information our readers will find most valuable.”

“I’m very excited to be starting the column,” said Gross. “There is a lot of financial information that business people should have and I am very pleased to have the opportunity to share my knowledge with them. This is really an extension of my role as a legal and financial educator.”

About New York Law School

Founded in 1891, New York Law School is the second oldest independent law school in the United States. Drawing on its location near the centers of law, government, and finance in New York City, its faculty of noted and prolific scholars has built the school’s curricular strength in the areas of tax law, labor and employment law, civil and human rights law, media and information law, urban legal studies, international and comparative law, and interdisciplinary fields such as legal history and legal ethics. New York Law School has more than 11,000 graduates and enrolls some 1500 students in its full- and part-time J.D. program. It is one of only two law schools in the metropolitan area to offer the Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation.