Research Team: Richard M. Greenberg, Esq.

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Rick Greenberg is Vice President of the Ida and Robert Gordon Family Foundation and has been a criminal defense attorney for nearly 50 years. The Gordon Foundation’s primary areas of focus are climate and sustainable food systems and women’s reproductive health. Between 1996 and 2016, Rick was the Attorney-in-Charge of the Office of the Appellate Defender (OAD), a not-for-profit indigent criminal defense office in New York City that provides client-centered appellate and post-conviction representation and social work/re-entry services, and trains new lawyers in the practice of appellate advocacy. 

Since retiring from OAD in 2016, Rick has handled a variety of pro bono post-conviction matters. Prior to joining OAD in 1994, Rick spent five years in the Environmental Crimes Unit of the New York State Attorney General’s Office, where he oversaw criminal prosecutions of large corporations, as well as small businesses and individuals, for a variety of environmental offenses. Earlier in his career, Rick was a trial lawyer with The Legal Aid Society in Manhattan, where he handled numerous felony trials. In 2012, he was named a “Lawyer Who Leads by Example” by the New York Law Journal. 

Rick was honored to participate with the Human Trafficking Research Hub in the research and preparation of its inaugural paper and hopes to work on future projects with the team. Rick sits on the Boards of the New York State Defenders Association (NYSDA), and Crossing Point Arts, an organization that provides creative arts workshops and mentoring services to survivors of human trafficking. He received a BA in Music from Binghamton University, and a JD from Buffalo University Law School.