Bonnie Greenberg is one of the top lawyers in Maryland and an internationally recognized legal skills trainer. She was honored by the Maryland Daily Record as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women for 2015 and selected for a Leadership in Law Award in 2009. In 2022 she was one of the first attorneys selected as a Certified Instructor by the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Office of Legal Education, Faculty Development Institute.
Ms. Greenberg spent over 37 years as a prosecutor for the DOJ before retiring from full-time work in 2023. She now focuses on teaching, both in the U.S. and abroad. Specifically, Ms. Greenberg is an adjunct professor for Georgetown Law, teaching Trial Advocacy and Applied Evidence, and completed a corruption program for Uzbekistani prosecutors in Spring 2023.
Ms. Greenberg’s last position with DOJ was as an Attorney Advisor for the Criminal Division’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training Section (“OPDAT”) from 2020-2023. As a trial attorney and an OPDAT Attorney Advisor she instructed students all over the world. During the time she was at OPDAT she was on detail from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland where she had been an Assistant United States Attorney since 1991. While in the United States Attorney’s Office Ms. Greenberg prosecuted a variety of criminal cases and served as the Robbery Task Force and Project Safe Childhood Coordinator.
From 1987 to the present, Ms. Greenberg has served as adjunct faculty for the DOJ’s Office of Legal Education, teaching Trial Advocacy, Evidence, Child Exploitation, and other subjects to federal prosecutors.
Ms. Greenberg is a long-time member and supporter of the FBA. She was the Maryland Chapter President in 2004 and the Chapter Delegate from 2014-2022. She served on the annual convention and the audit committees. Most recently, Ms. Greenberg served as the chair of the Professional Development Task Force, and successfully got the task force to be a committee. She continues to serve as the chair of the Professional Development Committee.
Ms. Greenberg graduated from Temple University School of Law (now Temple University Beasley School of Law) and received her B.S., magna cum laude, from West Chester State College (now University). Following graduation, the DOJ selected Ms. Greenberg for an Honors Attorney position. She worked in the Antitrust Division and the Criminal Division before joining the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland.