January 11, 2012 5:39 PM
The Lateral: Former Detroit Deputy Mayor Saul Green Rejoins Miller Canfield
Posted by Tom Huddleston Jr.
Six months after ending a nearly three-year run as Detroit’s deputy mayor, lifelong Motor City resident Saul Green landed at Miller Canfield last week as of counsel in the firm’s litigation and trial group.
In joining Miller Canfield’s Detroit headquarters office, Green returns to a firm where he spent seven years in a similar role beginning in 2001, when he ended a seven-year stint as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Green left Miller Canfield in 2008 to oversee Detroit’s public safety agencies as a member of then-Detroit Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr.’s administration. At the time, Detroit was reeling from the sex-and-perjury scandal that toppled former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Green stayed on as deputy mayor after former Detroit Pistons star Dave Bing beat Cockrel in a 2009 special selection.
In addition to supervising Detroit’s police, fire, law, and homeland security departments, Green guided the city’s efforts to comply with a federal consent decreee issued after the U.S. Justice Department uncovered abuses
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