[1] After his judicial retirement, he served as Director of the Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy at Suffolk University Law School.
He currently is in private practice as senior counsel at Bulkley Richardson in Springfield, Massachusetts.
After briefly serving in the military, Chief Justice Greaney joined the Springfield law firm of Ely and King until his appointment to the Hampden County Housing Court in 1974.
In his time on the bench, he wrote a well-known concurrence in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health.
[2] In 2008, Justice Greaney retired from the court and was appointed director of the Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy at Suffolk University Law School in Boston.