James F. Green is a Senior Partner with Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP charged with the organization and development of the legal team responsible for Toxic Tort work.  He was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Mr. Green was educated at St. Anselm College where he was a member of Delta Sigma Rho, Tan Kappa Alpha and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy and Political Science in 1970.  He received his Juris Doctor from Suffolk University School of Law in 1973, where he was a member of Phi Alpha Delta.

Mr. Green is a member of the Massachusetts, District of Columbia and Virginia Bars.   He is also a member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, where he has had the honor to appear and argue cases on behalf of injured persons.  He is an active member of the Bar Association of The District of Columbia, The Virginia State Bar Association, The Massachusetts Bar Association, The American Bar Association, The American Association for Justice, The Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, DC and The Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.  He has also served as past National Chairman and Vice Chairman of various committees of these associations.

He is an active lecturer and author in local and national Continuing Legal Education (CLE) programs.  He has been repeatedly voted by his peers to membership in Best Lawyers in America for personal injury and mass toxic tort and has been named by The Washington Post in its list of “Washington DC’s Top Lawyers”.  He holds an A.V. Preeminent Peer Reviewed rating from members of the Bar and Judiciary by the Martindale Law Directory.  Over the past several decades, Mr. Green has been the subject of multiple biographical entries in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Law.

Mr. Green has focused his practice on the areas of workers’ compensation, products liability, pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, and mass toxic tort.  He has been appointed by the Judges of various Federal Courts to serve on Multi-District Litigation committees.  These appointments include Plaintiff Steering, Discovery, Science and Settlement Committees.  A representative cross section of his MDL case work would include the litigations in Fosamax, Rezulin, PPA, Dexatrim, Zyprexa, Ortho Evra, Cypher and Taxus Stent, Asbestos and Agent Orange, among others.  He joined Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP in 1975.

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