Attorney Greening is presently a Clinical Instructor at the Family Justice Clinic at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School. Since 2023 she has been appointed as a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. In these capacities she practices law while training second and third year Harvard law students on family law and family regulation cases.
Attorney Greening was born and raised in Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood of Boston. Her passion for helping others grew out of the disparities she observed in her community where systemic failures and structural inequality impacted the futures of many children and families. Working in a trauma-informed way with families needing to access the myriad of legal systems impacting their lives became her area of focus.
She attended Boston Latin School and New York University, majoring in social work. Her social work practicum was at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office’s Victim Services Unit in Brooklyn, NY where she counseled and advocated for people experiencing intimate partner violence. This training compelled her to pursue a law degree to provide increased access to trauma-informed lawyering for communities in need.
At Northeastern University Law School (2010) she completed co-ops (externships) with the Hon. Spencer Kagan (ret.) of the Middlesex Probate and Family Court, the family law firm Stone, Stone and & Creem, the WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, and with Lorenn Walker, Esq. and the Hawai’i Friends of Restorative Justice.
After starting her career as a Staff Attorney at the Committee for Public Counsel Services’ Children and Family Law Division, she opened her own solo practice in 2015 dedicated to public defense of families as well as private representation in the Juvenile and Family and Probate courts.
Rebecca was honored to receive the 2018 “Zealous Advocacy” Award from her colleagues at the Massachusetts Juvenile Bar Association.