Michael S. Greco

Michael S. Greco, a partner in the Boston office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, LLP, is President of the American Bar Association[1]. He became president in August 2005, at the Association’s Annual Meeting in Chicago. Image File history File links Michaelgreco. ... Image File history File links Michaelgreco. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... Now named Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, due to 2004 merger with UK City Law firm Nicholson, Graham & Jones LLP. The merger was effective from 1 January 2005. ... American Bar Associations Washington, DC office The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...

A trial lawyer with more than 30 years of litigation experience, he has also served as arbitrator and mediator in complex business and other disputes on both the state and national levels.

He earned his J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1972, where he served as Editor in Chief of the Boston College Law Review and as class president, and then clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He earned his B.A. in English from Princeton University in 1965. Prior to law school he taught English at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H. J.D. redirects here; for alternate uses, see J.D. (disambiguation) J.D. is an abbreviation for the Latin Juris Doctor, also called a Doctor of Law or Doctorate of Jurisprudence, and is the law degree typically awarded by an accredited U.S. law school after successfully completing three years... Boston College Law School, known colloquially as BC Law, is one of the professional graduate schools of Boston College. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... The Academy Building Phillips Exeter Academy (also called Exeter, Phillips Exeter, or PEA) is a co-educational independent boarding school for grades 9-12, located on 471. ...

He has long been active in the ABA, including serving in the House of Delegates since 1985 and as the elected State Delegate from Massachusetts during 1993-2004. He has chaired the Association’s Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary, Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, Executive Committee of the Conference of State Delegates, Steering Committee of the Nominating Committee, the ABA Day in Washington Planning Committee, and other committees. After September 11, 2001, he served on the ABA Task Force on Terrorism and the Law, and also served on the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security and the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession. Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ... The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ...

In Massachusetts he served as president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, the New England Bar Association, the New England Bar Foundation and the Board of Trustees of Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education. As MBA president he and the governor appointed a blue-ribbon Commission on the Unmet Legal Needs of Children, whose report and recommendations led to enactment of new statutes protecting the legal rights of children. He chaired the first-in-the-nation Massachusetts Legal Needs for the Poor Assessment and Plan for Action, and was co-founder and co-chair of Bar Leaders for Preservation of Legal Services for the Poor, a national grassroots organization that helped preserve the Legal Services Corporation in the 1980s. By appointment of the Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court he chaired the Court’s Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services. Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ...

He also served on the Board of Overseers of the Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and as Vice-Chair of the Board of Bar Overseers of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He served for eight years on Gov. William Weld’s state Judicial Nominating Council, and on the Commission on Federal Judicial Appointments. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) is the highest court in the United States Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ... William Weld William Floyd Weld (born July 31, 1945) was the Republican Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997, resigning to pursue the ambassadorship to Mexico. ...

He spent his youth in Hinsdale, Illinois, and has resided in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with his wife and children for the past thirty years. Hinsdale is a prestigious suburban village located in Cook County and DuPage County in the U.S. state of Illinois. ... Settled: 1660 â€“ Incorporated: 1881 Zip Code(s): 02481, 02482 â€“ Area Code(s): 339 / 781 Official website: http://www. ...

K&LNG Boston’s Michael S. Greco Takes Office as American Bar Association’s 129th President [2]

Boston, MA — Michael S. Greco, a partner in the Boston office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, was sworn in this summer as the 129th president of the American Bar Association (ABA) at the close of the ABA Annual Meeting, held in Chicago.

As president, Greco will focus on three major initiatives that support the central goal of the ABA. First, he will lead a “Renaissance of Idealism” aimed at inspiring the legal profession to reinvigorate and revitalize the profession’s commitment to pro bono and public service work. He will also work to enhance civic education regarding the roles of our three branches of government, with a particular emphasis on highlighting the importance of an independent judiciary. Greco’s third priority will involve expanding access to justice to the disadvantaged and the poor, a cause he has championed throughout his career.

Peter J. Kalis, chair of K&LNG’s management committee, commented: “Mike's civic participation at K&LNG is but one small dimension of his commitment to improve the circumstance of his chosen profession and our system of justice. His election as President of the ABA is the capstone of decades of involvement in the organization. Mike's priorities as President mirror the priorities of his entire career, as he will seek to inspire a renaissance of idealism in the profession, to reinvigorate provision of legal services to the poor, and to educate the American public on important aspects of the rule of law. We congratulate him on this extraordinary honor.”

Greco, who immigrated through Ellis Island from Italy as a young boy, is the first ABA president to be born outside the United States. Over the past several decades, Greco’s involvement in the ABA has included service in the ABA House of Delegates since 1985 and as State Delegate from Massachusetts since 1993. He has chaired the association’s Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary and its Individual Rights and Responsibilities section. After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Greco was appointed to the ABA Task Force on Terrorism and the Law, which provided analysis of legislation that resulted in the U.S. Patriot Act, and he helped develop ABA policy regarding the use of military tribunals to try suspected terrorists. He also served on the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security. Ellis Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, was at one time the main immigration port for immigrants entering the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ...

Greco is a trial lawyer with more than 30 years of litigation experience in business, employment and real estate law. He has also served as mediator and arbitrator in complex business and other disputes on both the state and national levels. He joined K&LNG in 2003, after 30 years as partner with Hill & Barlow of Boston.

The American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership association in the world. With more than 400,000 members, the ABA provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public.