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Charles
P.
Greenman
Partner
Deputy Practice Group Leader
New York
Business Phone:
212.704.6233
Business Fax:
212.704.5960
charles.greenman@troutmansanders.com
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Charles P. Greenman is a partner at Troutman Sanders LLP and concentrates his practice in the areas of trade regulation and commercial litigation. He has represented numerous manufacturers, distributors, retailers, financial institutions and service providers in investigations by federal, state and municipal regulatory agencies. He has represented clients in proceedings brought by State Attorneys General in more than twenty states, the FTC, FINRA and the SEC. He is also an experienced commercial litigator. He routinely appears in both state and federal courts. He has defended numerous class actions relating to a wide variety of consumer and securities issues.
Charles was the Assistant Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs for the City of New York. He also served as the Consumer Advocate for the City. He has served as Chairman of the Robinson-Patman Act Subcommittee of the New York State Bar Association and Chairman of the Committee on Consumer Affairs of the New York County Lawyers’ Association. In addition, he taught Consumer Law at New York University School of Law for more than a dozen years and has written numerous articles on consumer law issues for the New York Law Journal and similar publications. Since 1997, Mr. Greenman has been the Co-Editor of the Consumer Law Newsletter (formerly, the Retail Law Newsletter), a publication that reports on legal issues of particular interest to retailers and other providers of consumer goods and services.
He has also had the privilege of counseling two foreign countries in their adoption of consumer protection laws.
Recent Presentations & Publications
Speaker, "Hot Topics in Retailing Law," CLE Seminar, June 23, 2009.
Speaker, "Conducting International Arbitration," CLE Seminar, April 3, 2009.
Speaker, "Antitrust Update for the ABA Corporate Counseling Committee," American Bar Association Antitrust Section Teleseminar, December 17, 2007.
Co-Editor: The Consumer Law Newsletter (f/k/a The Retail Law Newsletter) (A semiannual newsletter that reports on legal developments of particular interest to retailers, manufacturers, providers and distributors of consumer goods and services), 1997- present; Author: "Accuracy Under FRCA 'Bryant' Sets Standard," New York Law Journal, Vol. 189, No. 100, 1983; "The Midtown Store Licensing Law," New York Law Journal, Vol. 189, No. 61, 1983; "Schemes to Defraud: Judicial Interpretation of Penal Law §190.60 and §190.65," New York Law Journal, Vol. 188, No. 103, 1982; "Setback for Consumers; Restricting the Private Right of Action," New York Law Journal Vol. 188, No. 12, 1982; "The Padlock Law," New York Law Journal, Vol. 187, No. 83, 1982; "Deceptive Trade Practice; Private Right of Action in New York," New York Law Journal 187, No. 20, 1982; "Unauthorized Electronic Fund Transfers: Recent Cases in New York," New York Law Journal, Vol. 186, No. 84, 1981; "Civil Procedure: New York Holds Non Resident Business Subject to Local Consumer Regulations," National Law Journal, Vol. 11, No. 14, 1979.
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Education
- New York University, J.D., 1975
The Order of the Coif; Annual Survey of American Law; two-time recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award
- Boston University, M.Ed., 1971
- Albion College, A.B., 1969
Bar Admissions
Court Admissions
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U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
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U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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U.S. Supreme Court
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U.S. Tax Court
Memberships
- New York State Bar Association, past Chair of Robinson-Patman Act Subcommittee
- City Bar Association, past member of Committee on Consumer Affairs
- New York County Lawyers’ Association, past Chair of Committee on Consumer Affairs
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