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| type, state, number: | attorney, ca, 84808 |
| issuer: state bar of california | |
| current status: active | |
| district: district 3 | |
| county: santa clara | |
| license history | |
| 03/26/1991 | active |
| 01/01/1986 | inactive |
| 01/28/1982 | active |
| 01/01/1979 | inactive |
| 12/11/1978 | admitted to the state bar of california |
Joseph A. Grundfest dominates the corporate governance movement. He is often quoted on securities law and testifies frequently before Congress; he's also a former commissioner of the SEC. As a professor, he has a continually expanding influence on attorneys and executives, particularly in Silicon Valley. Among his roles, he is acting director of the Institutional Investors' Forum and he directs the Roberts Program in Law, Business, and Corporate Governance at Stanford. He is the coordinator of the Grundfest Group, an informal association of select Silicon Valley securities attorneys who meet to evaluate and respond to new and proposed SEC rule changes. He is the principal investigator for Stanford's Securities Litigation Clearinghouse, which posts online the full texts of all class action securities fraud complaints and other significant pleadings filed in federal court.