Corporate Criminal Liability and Prevention

Richard S. Gurner is a former inside counsel to the IBM Corporation and consultant to the United States Sentencing Commission concerning corporate sentencing standards; He is a co-author with Louis M. Brown and Anne Kandel of The Legal Audit (1990), published by West Corporation and is also the author of numerous articles on corporate crime and crime prevention systems. He is a frequent speaker on these topics at continuing legal education programs.Mr. Gruner is an Emeritus Professor of Law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinios.He is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology (B.S. 1975), the USC Law School (J.D. 1978), Columbia Law School (LL.M. 1982), and the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, University of California, Irvine (Ph.D. 2008).Professor Gruner served as a member of the United States Sentencing Commission's Advisory Group on the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines. The Advisory Group’s recommendations for changes in corporate sentencing standards and evaluation criteria for organizational law compliance programs were generally accepted by the Sentencing Commission, forming the basis for new organizational sentencing guidelines effective in 2004.