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Nino E. Green Named State Bar Cummiskey Pro Bono Award Winner
9/5/03 A pioneer in the legal services movement in Michigan, Nino E. Green of Escanaba has been named the 2003 recipient of the John W. Cummiskey Pro Bono Award. This State Bar of Michigan award is presented each year to a member who shows outstanding commitment to pro bono issues. Green will receive the award Friday, September 12, during the State Bar of Michigan 68th Annual Meeting in Lansing. Green has been committed to pro bono work and access to legal services since the mid-1960's. From 1966-1969 h served as the first director of the Upper Peninsula Legal Services, which is now known as Legal Services of Northern Michigan. Green is credited for helping create the legal aid model in the Upper Peninsula and establishing legal services offices in Sault Ste. Marie, Marquette, Houghton, Escanaba, and Bessemer. Green's partners at Green, Weisse, Rettig, Rademacher & Clark, P.C., where he has served as a shareholder and president, estimate that he regularly spends up to 15 percent of his time advising low-income people, providing legal advice and seminars to community non-profit organizations, and representing individual clients on a pro-bono basis. Much of Green's work is "quiet" pro-bono work and is not reported. Green currently serves on the board of directors of Legal Services of Northern Michigan. He has also been active in the State Bar's Access to Justice (ATJ) campaign, and has successfully gained greater ATJ support from Upper Peninsula lawyers. Green holds an A.B degree and an L.L.B degree from Wayne State University.
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