Bridgeport, Connecticut
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phone | (203) 335-5141 |
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Mr. Green concentrates his practice in general civil and commercial
litigation and land use matters. With more than twenty five years
of experience, Mr. Green has successfully brought and defended hundreds
of cases on behalf of individual and corporate clients at both the
trial and appellate level.
In his land use practice, Mr. Green has appeared before planning and
zoning commissions, inland wetland commissions, zoning boards of appeals,
historic district commissions and other land use and development-related
agencies throughout Fairfield and New Haven Counties. He has also
tried land use appeals in the Connecticut courts. Most recently, Mr.
Green has represented a number of individuals, neighborhood and community
groups in opposing massive and inappropriate development projects
in neighborhoods throughout northern Fairfield County.
Mr. Green is also very active in civic affairs in the greater Bridgeport
area as a member of several community and neighborhood organizations
and associations. Mr. Green is a member of the Board of Directors
of Sullivan McKinney Elder Housing and served as the Chairman of the
Board of Directors of Operation Hope of Fairfield, an organization
dedicated to providing innovative solutions to homelessness where
he is presently a member of the Advisory Board. In 2008, Mr. Green
was elected to the Board of Commissioners of the Bridgeport Downtown
Special Services District, a special taxing district serving the City's
downtown.
Mr. Green held elected office as a five-term member of the Representative
Town Meeting of the Town of Fairfield from 1997 through 2007 and was
elected and served as Moderator from 2001 through 2007. As a member
of the RTM, Mr. Green served on the Legislation and Administration
Committee and the Public Works and Planning Committee. In 1995, Mr.
Green was first elected and continues to serve on Fairfield Democratic
Town Committee and was a District Leader from 2000 through 2005. In
2004, Mr. Green was presented the Eunice Postol Community Service
Award by the Fairfield Democratic Town Committee for his many years
of dedicated service to the Fairfield community.
Mr. Green is a member of several professional organizations including
the Bridgeport Bar Association where is a Sustaining Member, The Connecticut
Bar Association where he is a Member of The Land Use and Planning
Section and The Litigation Section and The Connecticut Trial Lawyers
Association.
Mr. Green was born and raised in the Bridgeport area and currently
resides in Fairfield with his wife and two daughters. Mr. Green graduated
from Clark University in 1979 where he received a B.A. in Geography.
Mr. Green received his J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School
of Law in 1982.
- Education:
- Case Western Reserve University Law School, Cleveland, Ohio, 1982
J.D. - Clark University, 1979
B.A.
Major: Geography
- Professional Associations and Memberships:
- Sullivan McKinney Elder Housing
- Member, Board of Directors
- Operation Hope of Fairfield
- Chairman, Board of Directors
- Representative Town Meeting of the Town of Fairfield
- Five-Term Member
- Representative Town Meeting of the Town of Fairfield, 1997 - 2003
- Moderator, Legislation and Administration Committee
- Public Works and Planning, 2003 - Present
- Member
- Fairfield Democratic Town Committee, 2000 - 2005
- District Leader
- Bridgeport Bar Association
- Sustaining Member
- Connecticut Bar Association, Land Use and Planning Section
- Member
- Connecticut Bar Association, Litigation Section
- Member
- Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association
- Windjammers Sailing Club
- Former Commodore
- Windjammers Sailing Club
- Member, Board of Governors
- Yacht Clubs
- Legal Advisor
- Yale Hockey Association.
- Member