RICHARD M. GREENBERG

Rick Greenberg is the Vice President of the Ida and Robert Gordon Family Foundation and is a criminal defense attorney.  He is Of Counsel at Romano & Kuan PLLC, handling criminal appeals and post-conviction matters in New York City.  Between 1996 and 2016, Mr. Greenberg was the Attorney-in-Charge of Office of the Appellate Defender (OAD), a not-for-profit indigent criminal defense office in New York City that provides client-centered appellate and post-conviction representation and social work/re-entry services, and trains new lawyers in the practice of appellate advocacy.  Prior to joining OAD in 1994, Mr. Greenberg spent five years in the Environmental Crimes Unit of the New York State Attorney General’s Office, where he oversaw criminal prosecutions of large corporations, as well as small businesses and individuals, for a variety of environmental offenses.  Earlier in his career, Rick was a trial lawyer with The Legal Aid Society in Manhattan, where he handled numerous felony trials.  In 2012, he was named a “Lawyer Who Leads by Example” by the New York Law Journal.  Rick sits on the Boards of the New York State Defenders Association and Crossing Point Arts.  He received a B.A. in Music from Binghamton University, and a J.D. from Buffalo University Law School.