John Green Jr. - Lake Charles, LA

Overview

Awards and Honors

Education

• Legal Education

  • Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1991
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1988
    B.A.
    Major: English

Current Employment Position(s)

• Sole Practitioner

Languages

• English

Classes and Seminars

• History of Professionalism, Various, 2003 - Present
  
• Professionalism and Ethics, 2005 - 2006

Pro Bono Activities

• Pro Bono work for the preparing divorces for indigents, 2000 - Present
• Southwest Louisiana State Bar Foundation
• Founding Member of Board of Directors for the Whistle Stop supervised visitation program

Ancillary Businesses

• Secretary, Louisiana State Boxing and Wrestling Commission, 2005 - Present

• Primary author of revisions to LSA-R.S. 4:61 et. seq., including revisions to LSA-R.S. 4: 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 70, 72, 73, 75, 76, 79, 81, 82.2, 83 and 85. This legislation was successfully promulgated in 2007. This was the first time in more than 20 years the statutes had been completely revised.

• Primary author of request for an Attorney General's Opinion on behalf of the Commission. The Attorney General agreed with our position and issued. Attorney General Opinion Number 2005-0032. Prior to this, the last Attorney General opinion obtained relating to the LSBWC was No. 88-459 issued in 1988 

• Primary author of: Chapter 7. Mixed Technique Events Rules, Rules 701-727, of the Title 46 Professional and Occupational Standards, Part IX. Boxing and Wrestling. in 2017. These rules were adopted by the LSBWC on January 10, 2008, and were promulgated in February of 2008. 

• Primary author of 2010 revision to LSA-R.S. 4:67. Changes promulgated in 2010.

• Primary author of extensive revisions/reorganization of: Title 46 Professional and Occupational Standards, Part IX. Boxing and Wrestling, in early 2017. The redrafted rules were presented to the LSBWC and are in the process of being promulgated. According to the notes to the Rules and Regulations, they had not been completely revised or reorganized since 1996, and some of the rules dated back to 1967.

Bar Admissions

• U.S. District Court Western District of Louisiana, 1992
• Louisiana, 1991

Other Affiliations

• Member of Association of Boxing Commissioners, 2005 - Present
• Louisiana State Bar Association, 1997 - Present (Member)
• Louisiana State Bar Association, 1991 - Present (Member)
• Whistle Stop, supervised visitation center, 2003 - 2004 (Chairman, Board of Directors)
• Whistle Stop, supervised visitation center, - 2002 (Founding Member, Board of Directors)
• Southwest Louisiana Bar Foundation Board of Directors (Mentor)