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Joseph B. Green concentrates his practice in civil and criminal litigation, including special education law. He graduated from Yale University in 1969. After completing a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he graduated from Harvard Law School in 1976 and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1977. After working in a Boston law firm, he was appointed an Assistant District Attorney in Essex County, where he served for ten years as Chief District Court Prosecutor and Director of Policy and Planning, as well as prosecuting criminal cases in Superior and District Court. Mr. Green also has experience in appellate litigation, having argued cases in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He has taught in the Clinical Program at Harvard Law School and in numerous continuing legal education courses. He has authored a book and several articles on evidence, trial practice and procedure, and criminal law, including Apprehending and Prosecuting the Drunk Driver, Matthew Bender, 1992; The Crime of Parental Kidnapping in Massachusetts: A Discussion of G.L. c. 265, §26A, Massachusetts Law Review, September, 1985; and Hearsay Exceptions When the Declarant is Unavailable and Hearsay Within Hearsay (MCLE 1984). Mr. Green has served on the Governor's/MBA Commission on the Unmet Legal Needs of Children, the Governor's Child Support Commission, the Commission on Violence Against Children, and the Subcommittee Reviewing Department of Social Services Procedures on Substantiation Review, Fair Hearings and the Central Registry. In 2001, Mr. Green was appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court as Special Counsel to the Committee on Responsibility for Clerks of Court. He serves as a volunteer Conciliator for civil cases in the Boston Municipal Court. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys | 