Resume of Bruce R Greene, Attorney at Law

Bruce R. Greene Attorney at Law Resume Employment present Law Offices of Bruce R. Greene & Associates, LLC More than forty years specializing in all aspects of Federal Indian Law and the representation of Native American tribes. Employment History & Professional Highlights 1977-2008 Greene, Meyer, & McElroy, PC Founder and managing partner of firm specializing in federal Indian law. 1987-1989 Appointed as Federal Mediator by Hon. Robert H. Coyle, U.S. District Court. (E.D. Ca.), in United States v. Washington, 384 F. 312,364 (W.D. Wash. 1974), aff’d, 520 F.2d 676 (9^th Cir. 1975), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 1086 (1976), enforced, 459 F. Supp. 1020 (W.D. Wash. 1977), aff’d sub nom Puget Sound Gillnetters v. U.S. Dist. Ct., 573 F.2d 1123 (9^th Cir. 1978), aff’d Washington v. Fishing Vessel Ass’n, 443 U.S. 658 (1979), to mediate the allocation of treaty fishing rights and available harvests of salmon among twenty Indian tribes fishing in Washington waters. 1984-1986 Director of Litigation of the Navajo Nation Department of Justice. Responsible for supervising 22 lawyers litigating in state and federal court on behalf of the Navajo Nation and acting as lead counsel in several complex lawsuits in federal court. 1975-1977 Director, Indian Law Support Center, and Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colorado. 1972-1974 Director, California Indian Legal Services, Oakland, California. Directed the activities of a statewide Legal Services Corporation funded Indian legal program with 15 attorneys, in five offices throughout the state. 1971-1972 Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colorado. Federal District, Court of Appeals, Supreme Court, and administrative agency practice on behalf of Indian tribes, groups, and individuals. 1970 Associate, Feldman, Waldman & Kline, San Francisco, California. General corporate, 20-person law firm. Duties included corporate mergers and acquisitions, federal court anti-trust litigation. 1967-1969 Attorney advisor to John A. Carver, Jr., Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. Legal advisor and assistant to Commissioner; prepared Commission majority opinions, dissenting opinions of Commissioner, speech writing, and extensive legal research in natural gas and electricity regulation. Professional Associations Federal Bar Association American Bar Association Colorado Bar Association Colorado Indian Bar Association Boulder County Bar Association California Bar Association (inactive) Admitted to Practice Supreme Court of the State of California – 12/1/1967 (examination) Supreme Court of the State of Colorado – 5/17/1976 (examination) The following admissions were by motion: Supreme Court of the United States – 6/25/1973 United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit – 2/15/1980 United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit – 8/23/1991 United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit – 2/19/1987 United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit – 7/13/1972 United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit – 6/22/1979 United States Court of Federal Claims – 9/11/1972 United States District Court for the Southern District of California – 8/4/1972 United States District Court for the Northern District of California – 11/6/1970 United States District Court for the District of Arizona – 1/21/1992 United States District Court for the District of Colorado – 1/21/1992 United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan – 11/3/1997 United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan – 7/27/1990 United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin – 7/29/1996 United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin – 1990 United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington – 9/22/1998 Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa Tribal Court, Michigan – 2/20/2002 Public Speaking Delivered dozens of speeches before a variety of audiences and associations regarding federal Indian law topics. Included were two lectures to sitting U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals judges regarding Indian treaty rights to hunt, fish, trap, and gather, and Indian gaming law issues. In 2014, Mr. Greene spoke at the Spring Conference of the International Masters of Gaming Law (“IMGL”) on the subject of the then pending case in the Supreme Court, Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community. He also spoke at the Seattle University School of Law’s Tribal Government Business Law Program, on tribal sovereign immunity and the Supreme Court’s opinion in Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community, ___ U.S. ___, 134 S. Ct. 2024 (2014). Mr. Greene was the invited keynote speaker at the University of Colorado’s School of Law on September 12, 2014, at a conference devoted to the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community. Education Degree: Juris Doctor University of California Hasting College of the Law, San Francisco, California Graduation: June 1967 Activities and Honors: Graduated 1^st in class of 323, Valedictorian; Order of the Coif; Editorial Board – Research Editor, Hastings Law Journal Degree: Bachelor of Science, Business Administration University of California, Berkeley, California Graduation: July 1964