Law Practice:
Bruce R. Greene is the senior partner in the law firm of Greene, Meyer & McElroy, P.C. He has devoted his practice to all aspects of federal Indian law, with special emphasis on treaty hunting, fishing and gathering rights, and Indian gaming matters. Mr. Greene's work in the field of treaty rights has included the establishment of treaty-reserved fishing rights on the Great Lakes, hunting and fishing rights on inland areas in Michigan, and the allocation of treaty reserved fishing rights on the Columbia River among twenty Washington tribes. Mr. Greene has represented several tribes around the country in gaming matters, including the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, and the Navajo Nation. Those matters include applications for trust designation of newly acquired lands for gaming purposes, scope of gaming issues with regard to tribal-state gaming compacts, negotiation of tribal-state gaming compacts, casino management contract issues, and development agreements for casino complexes. Mr. Greene handled litigation on behalf of certain Wisconsin, Michigan and Washington Indian tribes that successfully concluded in tribal/state gaming compacts in those states.
Education and Professional Activities:
Mr. Greene received his undergraduate degree in 1964 from the University of California at Berkeley, and his law degree in 1967 from the University of California Hastings College of Law, where he was class valedictorian.