Jim Green Jr. graduated from the Florida State College of Law with honors in 2007. He has been practicing law since 2007. He is a member of the Florida Bar Association, the Florida Justice Association, the American Association for Justice, the Escambia/Santa Rosa Bar Association, and American Inns of Court. Jim is also the treasurer of the First Circuit Justice Association. Jim primarily works on personal injury and estate litigation cases.

During law school, Jim served as articles editor for the Florida State Law Review. He booked Professor Ehrhardt's evidence class and Professor Tahirih Lee's advanced civil procedure class and also clerked for the central staff of the First District Court of Appeal. Jim's work experience includes the following: serving as Professor Charles W. Ehrhardt's research assistant, helping edit the 2007 edition of Professor Ehrhardt’s book Florida Evidence, a work cited several hundred times by Florida's Supreme Court and District Courts of Appeal; serving as Professor Dan Markel's research assistant, conducting research and editing work for his forthcoming trio of articles providing a retributive justification for punitive damages; and clerking for the central staff of the First District Court of Appeal.