David Greene is senior counsel in the firm's San Francisco office. Before joining the firm, he served for over a decade as the executive director and lead staff counsel for First Amendment Project, a nonprofit organization providing direct, pro bono legal services on public interest free speech and free press matters. As lead staff counsel, Mr. Greene represented clients at both the trial and appellate levels, including bench trial experience in state and federal courts, and appellate advocacy before the California Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. David is also an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, teaching courses on First Amendment Law and the Law of Mass Communication and the Press, and an instructor in the Journalism Department at San Francisco State University. In the Spring of 2011, he was a visiting professor at East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai.

Mr. Greene has written, lectured and published extensively on the issues of free expression and the arts and other areas of First Amendment Law. Additionally, he was a founding member of the Internet Free Expression Alliance.

Bar and Court Admissions

California, 1992

Education

Duke University-School of Law, J.D., with high honors, 1991

Lehigh University, B.S., with high honors, 1987

Publications

• "The Need for Expert Testimony to Prove Lack of Serious Artistic Value in Obscenity Cases," NEXUS: A Journal of Opinion, 2005
• "Why Protect Political Art as "Political Speech'?" 27:2 Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, Winter 2005
• "Trade Secrets, The First Amendment and the Challenges of the Internet Age," 23:3 Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, Spring 2001
• "NEA Four Decision Deconstructed" FYI vol. 14 no. 3, Fall 1998

Speeches and Seminars

• "Student Journalism and the Law," Society of Professional Journalists, Western Regional Conference, April 2010
• "Copyright in the Digital Age," FOTOVISION, Berkeley, CA, April 2009
• "Banned and Re-covered: Literary Works on Trial," African American Museum and Library at Oakland, Oakland, CA, November 2008
• "Freedom of Information and Environmental Law: Recent Developments and Future Controversies," 2008 California State Bar Environmental Section, Environmental Law Institute at Yosemite Fish Camp, CA, October 2008
• "The Legal Landscape of Street Shooting," FOTOVISION, Berkeley, CA, July 2007
• "National Security and the Press, " UC Hastings Con. L. Quarterly, San Francisco, CA, March 2006
• "Daily Journal Extra State of the Law: The First Amendment," Los Angeles, CA, May 2005
• "Provocation: An Evening Celebrating Artistic Freedom," Creative Coalition, San Francisco CA, October 2005
• "Media Law Primer," California College Media Association Editors Workshop, San Francisco CA, September 2004
• "SLAPP Me Silly: Does This Make Any Sense?" State Bar Education Foundation Environmental Law Section Private Enforcement Conference, Oakland CA, June 2004
• "Indecency and the First Amendment: Has the FCC Gone Too Far?" Commonwealth Club inFORUM, San Francisco, CA, June 2004
• “Uniting Privacy and the First Amendment in the 21st Century,” Oakland, CA,May 2003

Professional Affiliations

• ABA Forum on Communications Law, Governing Board: Chair, Teach Media Law Committee
• Free Expression Network, Steering Committee; Free Expression Network West, Project Director
• Free Expression Policy Project, Advisory Board
• Society of Professional Journalists, Freedom of Information Committee, Chair
• Out North Contemporary Art Center, Advisory Board
• Institute for Unpopular Culture, Free Speech Advisor