Joel S Green

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Joel Green is deputy managing partner of WilmerHale. In that role he assists the managing partner, Anjan Sahni, in executing the firm’s overall strategic vision. Mr. Green is also a partner in WilmerHale’s Securities, Litigation, and Regulatory Departments, Co-Chair of the Congressional Investigations Practice and a member of the Firm’s Management Committee.

He has more than two decades of experience helping clients successfully navigate high-stakes and challenging matters in the United States and abroad. Public companies, financial institutions, technology firms, accounting firms and individuals routinely turn to Mr. Green for representation in a broad range of regulatory investigations, enforcement, litigation and other strategic matters. He has substantial experience representing individuals and organizations in parallel criminal and civil investigations and proceedings, typically involving the SEC, DOJ and state regulators. Mr. Green has also led high-stakes and sensitive internal investigations in the United States and around the world, including Europe, the Middle East and Asia, typically involving allegations of fraud, financial reporting or accounting improprieties, data abuse and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations.

As co-chair of the Congressional Investigations practice, Mr. Green serves as counselor and strategic advisor to prominent companies and institutions, their senior executives, and other individuals in high-profile congressional investigations and hearings, including several recent prominent CEO-level hearings in both chambers of Congress.

Mr. Green has an active pro bono practice. He has represented a Washington DC–based nonprofit mental healthcare provider in various litigation and other matters, including filing suit to recover millions of dollars the nonprofit lost through a Ponzi scheme. He also recently obtained the release of three individuals challenging their life-term prison sentences on Constitutional grounds.

Personal

JD, The George Washington University Law School, 2003

with High Honors

Articles Editor, The George Washington Law Review

BA, The George Washington University, 2000

magna cum laude

Phi Beta Kappa