Michael B. Green, Esq.

Post Office Box 2451              Seaford, N.Y. 11783

(516) 993-4357                       http://www.computorney.com               (516) 908-7772 (fax)

Admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and New York State Bar

 

Experience

 

Pencom Systems Incorporated, New York, N.Y. (1995 – Present)

General Counsel (1998–Present); Asst. General Counsel (1997-1998); Senior Legal Assistant (1995–1997)

 

Enjoy progressively increasing responsibility for the legal affairs of a 34 year old conglomerate of privately held and public enterprises including computer consulting, contract programming, network and systems administration and full time technical search and placement services as well as software and Internet development, primarily in the U.S. and Canada.

 

Sole attorney legal department responsible for the autonomous oversight over all day-to-day legal and contract operations.

 

Guidance to parent and affiliates including each respective board, management and staff concerning all contract, commercial and residential lease, RFI/RFP and intellectual property and software license drafting, review, negotiation and enforcement with a focus on preventing solicitation of valuable technical employees by clients or third parties, protection of intellectual property rights as well as addressing UCC, warranty, indemnity, liability and insurance provisions and FAR, DFAR, ITAR provisions.

 

Negotiate and settle disputes involving client, employment, vendor and lease agreements, invoicing and collections, intellectual property rights and insurance claims.

 

Development of streamlined electronic contract tracking system integrating all departments involved in the contract process including accounting, sales, legal, marketing and management.

 

Counsel management on human resources materials including drafting, revising and implementing employee manuals and corporate policies, interview and termination of employment procedures, FLSA, employee stock plans, workplace conduct and misconduct, releases, settlements, non-compete and non-solicitation issues, independent contractor/employee tax status issues and reductions in force issues.

 

Advise corporate executives on litigation matters as well as spearhead and manage outside counsel including firms that represented company as seller in several software acquisition, asset transfer transactions and sale of subsidiary; civil litigation firms that successfully defended corporation in discrimination lawsuit and wrongful discharge case; securities firm representing corporation in taking privately held subsidiaries public; and several litigation firms that successfully protected the corporations rights against former clients and employees who breached agreements with the corporation.

 

Law Office Of Michael B. Green, Esq., Seaford, N.Y. (1998 – Present)

 

Representation of clients on general legal matters including contract and lease drafting, review, negotiation and enforcement, trademark registrations, business plans, employee relations, landlord and tenant disputes, business management, government compliance, wills and day to day legal issues.

 

Speaking Engagements

 

Speaker, National Business Institute Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Course – “Advanced Internet Strategies for the Legal Professional” (August 19th, 2005 and August 18th, 2006).

 

Speaker, Shareware Industry Conference, Rochester, NY – “Effective Contract Negotiations” and “Selling and Licensing Source Code” (July 15th, 2004).

 

Reported Works and Publications

 

Amicus Curiae Brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. v. American Library Association (the Children’s Internet Protection Act “CIPA” case) (February 10th, 2003) 2003 WL 328799.

 

Amici Curiae Brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in ACLU v. Reno (the Internet Communications Decency Act “CDA” case) (Feb. 17th, 1997) 1997 WL 74392.

 

“Bridging the Analogy Gap: The Internet, The Printing Press & Freedom of Speech”, J. Wallace and M. Green, 20 SEAULR 711 (1997);

 

“Nameless in Cyberspace: Anonymity on the Internet,” Cato Institute Briefing Paper No. 54 (December 8th, 1999), J. Wallace and M. Green.

 

 “The Specter of Pervasiveness: Pacifica, New Media, and Freedom of Speech,” Cato Institute Briefing Paper No. 35 (February 12th, 1998), J. Wallace and M. Green.

 

Education

 

Hofstra University School Of Law, Uniondale, N.Y. (1994 – 1997)

J.D., 1997

 

Publications:  “Fair Use Doctrine of Copyright Law as Applied to the Internet,” The Ethical Spectacle (March, 1996) (www.spectacle.org/396).

 

Research Assistant, Jonathan Wallace, Esq. (1995 – 1999)

 

Researched, edited and contributed to:

 

Ø      Nationally published book, Sex, Laws & Cyberspace (Henry Holt: 1996);

Ø      “Extinguishing the CDA Fire: The Supreme Court's Masterful Reno v. ACLU Opinion,” Journal of Information, Law & Technology (October 31st, 1997).

 

Research Assistant for Professor Donna Hill, Esq. (1994 – 1996)

Assisted in research/development of computerized legal research tutorial program via grant from Computer Aided Legal Institute (CALI).

 

Long Island University, C.W. Post, Brookville, N.Y., (1993 – 1994)

Coursework towards a Masters in Educational Technology.

 

State University Of New York, Albany, N.Y. (1988 – 1991)

B.A. in Psychology/Criminal Justice, 1991.

 

Statewide Student Representative – NY State Senate Higher Education Committee (1991) and SUNY Board of Trustees (1989 – 1991); Four semesters of credits towards a B.S. in Computer Engineering transferred from Rochester Institute of Technology.

 

Miscellaneous

 

Public Computer Bulletin Board System (BBS) – Owner/System Operator (1988 – 1999).

 

Boy Scouts of America (1976 – Present). Eagle Scout with Gold and Silver Palm; Vigil Honor distinction (Order of the Arrow); Merit badge counselor for two merit badges: law & computers.

 

 

References available upon request.