Areas of Practice and Representative Experience
Mr. Green's practice focuses on wealth and business succession planning for high net-worth families and business owners; estate and trust planning; and administration and formation of business entities to implement tax and non-tax objectives. He assists individuals and families in developing and implementing entrance, growth and exit strategies for business and investment assets including: business succession, wealth transfer planning among family members, the use of long-term trusts to preserve assets and implementation of charitable planning, including charitable lead and remainder trusts, donor-advised funds and complex gifts.

Representative Clients
Private client services

Publications and Presentations
Lectures and articles on strategic wealth transfer strategies to professionals throughout the country

Author, Family Wealth and Business Succession Planning, Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants Annual Trusts & Estates Conference, June 14, 2007

Author, Keeping the Vacation Property in the Family, May 31, 2006

Author, The New Oregon Inheritance Tax - A/K/A What’s a Little More Chaos?, November 14, 2005

Author, Tax Considerations in Oregon Estate Plans, October 2005

Author, Capitalizing on Stock Options: Turning Paper Into Gold

Memberships and Activities
Fellow, American Colleges of Trust and Estates Counsel (ACTEC) and Tax Counsel (ACTC)

American, Oregon and Multnomah County Bar Associations Estate Planning Council of Portland

Named as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in Trusts and Estates Law by Woodward/White, 1999-2000; 2001-2002; 2003-04; 2005-06; 2006; 2007; 2008

Named one of “Portland’s Best Lawyers” in tax law by Portland Monthly, 2006

Selected to "Oregon Super Lawyers," Law & Politics, 2006, 2007

Former Chair, Oregon State Bar Association’s Committee on Trust Legislation, Economics of Law Section and Annual Meeting Program

Civic activities include service on the Boards of Trustees of the following nonprofits:

• Oregon Health & Science Foundation; chair of property committee, member of compensation committee, member of executive committee, former chair of planned giving advisory committee; 1998–2006 and 2008–present
  
• Northwest Christian Community Foundation; director since 1996, president 2006-present
  
• Portland Art Museum, 2007-present
  
• Planned Giving Advisory Councils of the University of Oregon, Washington State University and Oregon Health & Sciences Foundation

Education
LL.M. in Taxation, University of Miami, 1974

J.D., University of Oregon School of Law, 1973

B.S. in Political Science, University of Oregon, 1970