Joe Grundfest, Stanford Law School Professor

Today, my guest is Professor Joseph A. Grundfest, the W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School and Senior Faculty, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. 

Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1990, Professor Grundfest was a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and served on the staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors as counsel and senior economist for legal and regulatory matters.  

Professor Grundfest is also a co-founder and director of Financial Engines and a director of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co., and a former director of Oracle Corporation.  Prof. Grundfest received his JD from Stanford Law School and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Yale University. When I met him in his office and asked him why he had 2 appendages sticking out of a drawer, he said "I once gave legal advice to a client and he said it cost him an arm and a leg."