Attorneys

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Corporate and
Commercial Litigation

James S. Green, Jr. primarily practices in the areas of bankruptcy-related, corporate and commercial litigation.  He regularly appears before state and federal courts in Delaware representing a diverse range of clients, including: local and national construction contracting firms, financial institutions, bankruptcy debtors, bankruptcy committees, and individual creditors of insolvent companies, as well as officers, directors, and shareholders involving matters of Delaware corporate jurisprudence.

While in law school, Jim was Articles Editor of The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, Volume 28, and he completed a judicial externship for The Honorable Thomas L. Ambro of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  Prior to joining the firm, he was an associate at the Wilmington office of Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling PC (now Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC).

Education
Widener University School of Law, cum laude, 2003
B.A., cum laude, Philosophy, Gettysburg College, 1999

Admissions to Practice
Supreme Court of Delaware
U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

Memberships & Associations
Delaware State Bar Association, current counsel to the Litigation Section
American Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute
Delaware Federal Civil Panel

Selected Representations

Representation of local engineering company in multi-party construction dispute;

Defense of municipality in action alleging Constitutional claims;

Representation in litigation and arbitration of seller of securities in action for fraud, insider trading and breaches of fiduciary duties;

Defense of large manufacturing companies in asbestos litigation;

Representation of international construction company in contractual dispute over construction of regional distribution center;

Representation of receiver in dissolution and winding up of multi-million dollar partnership;

Representation of international construction and engineering company in engineering, procurement, and construction contract for billion-dollar project in Asia;

Representation of major financial institution as trustee in $20 million Court of Chancery action against officers and directors;

Defense of major financial institutions as note-holder parties in bankruptcy adversary proceeding for fraudulent transfers and preferential payments in bankruptcy case;

Frequent representation of various defendants in Delaware bankruptcy adversary proceedings

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