Thomas C. Green
THOMAS C. GREEN, before his retirement in 2023 from Sidley Austin, managed the firm’s
criminal defense practice group. He became a nationally recognized trial lawyer who represented
members of Congress and other public and corporate officials in connection with many of the
most well-known and significant federal criminal trials and investigations beginning with the
Watergate case.
Mr. Green is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and he practiced law
in Washington, D.C., for more than 55 years. Throughout his career, he taught civil and criminal
trial practice at clinical programs sponsored by law schools, bar associations and the National
Institute of Trial Advocacy, and he was a frequent lecturer and panelist at professional programs
for lawyers conducted by organizations such as the American Bar Association and the American
Law Institute.
Mr. Green is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received his law degree from Yale University.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a past president of the Assistant
United States Attorneys Association of Washington, D.C. Mr. Green is also a former U.S. Army
Captain and artillery battery commander and was attached to the 1st Air Cavalry Division in
Vietnam.
He serves as President of the not-for-profit International Anti-Corruption Resource Center whose
principal mission is to train law enforcement personnel and anti-corruption commissions
throughout the world to enhance their capability to detect, investigate and prosecute corruption
in connection with major procurement projects. He is a Board Member of Winrock International,
and in 2025 he came out of retirement to create the Washington Litigation Group, a law firm
dedicated to protecting the rule of law in the United States.
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