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John A. Greene is Of Counsel in the firm's Business Practices Group in Scottsdale. Mr. Greene has experience representing insurance, transportation, manufacturing, financial and service businesses in areas such as regulatory compliance, business formations, mergers and acquisitions, employee benefits and executive compensation, real estate, contract and government affairs.
In addition to many years in private practice, Mr. Greene served as chief tax counsel to The Greyhound-Dial Corporation, a Fortune 50 company, and its worldwide subsidiaries. He also served as in-house senior counsel to Greyhound Leasing & Financial Corporation and served as in-house tax and regulatory counsel at New York Life Insurance Company in New York City. Prior to that, Mr. Greene was associate counsel at Manhattan Life Insurance Company where he was responsible for the law department's litigation section.
Mr. Greene also has extensive public service experience including President of the Arizona State Senate. He was Chairman of the Arizona State Library and Archives Board, Legislative Council, the Joint Committee on Federal Mandates, the Joint Legislative Tax Committee, and the Joint Legislative Audit Committee and a member of the Senate Rules Committee. Before becoming Senate President, Mr. Greene was the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a member of the Senate Commerce, Labor, Insurance and Banking Committee, the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Corrections and the Courts, the Joint Select Committee on Corrections, the Study Committee on Criminal Code Revisions, the Study Committee on Victim's Rights, the Limited Liability Company Subcommittee, the Living Will, Durable Health Care Powers Subcommittee and the Joint Legislative and Judicial Study Committee on Post-Conviction Relief.
Mr. Greene also served as Director of the Arizona Department of Insurance and was a cabinet member under two Arizona governors. He was a member of the Arizona Film and Television Advisory Board, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners ("NAIC") where he served as a Board Member of the Journal of Insurance Regulation and on the Special Committees on Banks and Insurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans, and Health Insurance, the Task Force on International Insurance Relations and as chairmen of the NAIC/State Legislative Liaison Committee. Mr. Greene also served on the Governor's Strategic Partnership for Economic Development, Governor's Regional Airport Advisory Committee, Arizona Military Facilities Study Commission, International Development Authority, and the Governor's Science and Technology Council. He was the Chairman of the Civil Justice Task Force of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a member of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators and a Board Member of the Senate President's Forum.
Mr. Greene received the Arizona State Bar Foundation's highest Pro Bono Award for his work with the Phoenix Indian Center. He also received the 1992 American Legislative Exchange Council's Outstanding Legislator Award.
Among his many other activities, Mr. Greene is an Associate Member of the Fraternal Order of Police, the Arizona Voice for Crime Victims Advisory Board, the Legal Advisory Board of the Goldwater Institute and the Federalist Society.
Mr. Greene earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science at Hunter College of the City University of New York, his Juris Doctor degree at St. John's University School of Law, where he was the Research Editor of the St. John's Law Review, and his Masters of Law degree (LL.M.) in taxation at New York University School of Law.
Areas of Practice
Business Practices
Corporate Transactions
Insurance
Government Affairs
Bar Admissions
Arizona
New York
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
U.S. District Court District of Arizona
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York | 